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carolina’s Faculty and staff newspaper ■ gazette.unc.edu­november
14, 2007
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■ Bowers wins Massey Award 6
■ UNC cuts water usage 25 percent 8
■ Communications feedback needed 9
Moeser requests
tuition increases for all
except N.C. undergrads
Chancellor James Moeser has recommended
for 2008-09 campus-based tuition increases of
$1,250 for nonresident undergraduates, $800
for nonresident graduate students and $400 for
resident graduate students.
The chancellor outlined his recommenda-tions
in a Nov. 12 letter to members of the
University Board of Trustees, who will vote
on the recommendations this week before
forwarding them to the UNC Board of
Governors for consideration.
Moeser offered his advice to trustees after
receiving a range of tuition options from the
Tuition and Fee Advisory Task Force earlier
this month. Moeser endorsed the task force’s
recommendation for a total student fee
increase of $57.19, or 3.5 percent.
Moeser announced in late October that he
would recommend no increase for in-state
undergraduates in light of generous state
support for Carolina and other UNC system
campuses, but he further detailed his reasons
for doing so in the Nov. 12 letter.
“Board of Governors policy sets a limit for
each campus tied to its state appropriations,”
Moeser wrote. Under this formula, the University’s
14.7 percent increase in state appropriations far
exceeded the 6 percent cap set by the BOG. The
result was a ceiling rate of 0 percent for resident
undergraduate tuition. In addition, resident
undergraduate tuition is capped at 6.5 percent
for any one year.
“I understand this policy and President
(Erskine) Bowles’ clear message about holding
the line on in-state undergraduate tuition
for next year. This position appropriately
reflects the fact that the North Carolina General
Assembly has made a huge commitment to
underwrite the cost of our resident students.
Such an approach to tuition recognizes that
extraordinary level of support.”
Since fall 2004, the University has received
an additional $32.9 million in state money for
faculty salary increases, compared to the $17.4
million generated from campus-based tuition
increases for the same purpose.
Moeser said the limitations imposed on the
tuition task force focused its deliberations on
the University’s priorities for preserving quality
and excellence with reasonable tuition proposals
for all nonresident students and resident
graduate students. The chancellor said he
respected their opinions and concerns.
“My own starting point with this issue is a
firm belief that our out-of-state students must
continue to pay the full costs of their education
Campus community lists attributes in next chancellor
Faculty members recognize that many
strong leaders in higher education have come
from backgrounds outside the academy, par-ticularly
politics and business. But they also
believe that such leaders are the exception rather
than the rule, and a gamble not worth taking
when choosing Carolina’s 10th chancellor.
That was one sentiment expressed by
faculty who spoke before the Chancellor
Search Committee at the Oct. 30 forum. In
this second of three forums the committee is
holding, faculty, staff and students expressed
their feelings about the kind of chancellor
they would like to see when Chancellor James
Moeser steps down next summer.
Joseph Ferrell, the first person to speak,
said: “We expect to find our new chancellor
to be someone who admires and respects his
faculty colleagues and works with them as a
collegial leader rather than a chief executive
officer and who values and respects the
ancient traditions of shared governance
and diversity and academic freedom that
have been hallmarks of this institution for
more than two centuries.” Ferrell is long-time
secretary of the faculty and professor
of public law and government.
A third forum, scheduled for Nov. 15
from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Gerrard Hall, will
provide the opportunity for anyone unable
to attend the previous forums to speak. For
updates about the search process and to view
video of the forums, refer to www.unc.edu/
chan/search/.
A respect for the liberal arts
Ferrell said the single most important
quality the executive committee of the Faculty
Council hoped to find was an understanding
of the value of a liberal arts education.
“We hope that you look for someone who
has a deep belief that the welfare and security
of the human race is grounded in the bedrock
of intellectual enlightenment,” he said.
Faculty also hoped that the search committee
would find a chancellor grounded in an
understanding of the special responsibilities
of a public university and would have extensive
experience in that arena.
“As the public voice and face of the
University of North Carolina (at Chapel Hill),
an institution that aspires to be the best public
university in the nation, the chancellor must be
able to reach out and translate for the people
of North Carolina what the University does
for them so they will continue to value and
support it,” he said.
While it would be an asset for the person to
understand the state’s history and the special
place that Carolina holds in the hearts and
minds of its people, Ferrell said, it would be
a necessity for the next chancellor to have
“enough of the common touch to enable
him or her to gain quickly the respect and
confidence of the people of North Carolina
and especially their elected representatives in
Journalist, policy expert Carter to speak at Dec. 16 commencement
Noted journalist and
policy expert Hodding
Carter III, a professor
of leadership and
public policy at Caro-lina,
will deliver the
December commence-ment
address.
Chancellor James
Moeser will preside at the
ceremony set for 2 p.m.
Dec. 16 in the Dean E. Smith Center. Moeser
selected Carter in close consultation with the
University’s speaker selection committee.
The committee, chaired by Executive Associate
Provost Steve Allred, is also made up of four
students, the faculty chair, the faculty secretary
and two distinguished faculty members.
“Hodding Carter’s distinguished career in
journalism and public affairs has given him a vast
array of experience to draw from in assessing
the dynamics of leadership, policymaking
and the watchdog role of the news media in
America today,” Moeser said. “I am confident
that his message to our new graduates and their
families will give us all much to think about.”
Carter said he planned to use his December
address to speak on the United States as a
constantly changing nation.
“America in the 21st century remains what
it has always been, a nation in the midst of
change,” Carter said. “Where that will take
us in the coming decades remains dependent
on the myths, aspirations, precepts and
principles we embrace in our public as well as our
private lives.”
An award-winning journalist, Carter joined
the College of Arts and Sciences faculty in 2006
after spending eight years as president and chief
executive officer of the John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation, a Miami-based organization
that promotes excellence in journalism. He also
served as assistant secretary of state for public
affairs and state department spokesman under
former President Jimmy Carter. In that role,
he served as the public face of the Iran hostage
Alan Moran (left), cabinetmaker in Facilities Services, and Joy Kasson, professor and chair of
American studies, address the search committee during the Oct. 30 forum.
See Chancellor, page 14
carter
See Commencement, page 14 See Tuition page 14
2 University Gazette
They had always been
dog people. So when
their 8-year-old said
she wanted a guinea
pig, they really
didn’t know what
to expect.
The man at
the pet store was
very reassuring.
Guinea pigs are
a lot like people,
he said. They enjoy
two things: sitting
around and eating.
Armed with that infor-mation,
Spunky the guinea
pig (pictured above) came home with them.
Just as the man from the store predicted,
Spunky spent most of his days lounging against
the corner of his cage or hunkered down
in his tube, with just the tip of his nose
peeking out from his plastic “cave.”
Only at mealtime did he dart out of
his tube and race to his bowl.
Of course, as Spunky enjoyed
this lifestyle, he blossomed, so to
speak. So much so that he got stuck
in his tube — which was replaced
with a super-sized version. All
was good again.
Spunky, who probably should
have been named Mellow, showed
that a pet does not have to bark,
lick your face in energetic greeting or
race around the yard on squirrel patrol.
A pet can simply be part of your life and
provide a non-human way to connect with, and
care for, another being.
This story illustrates that pets come in all
varieties. Most families have stories to tell of
the role their pet(s) play, or played, in their
lives — and how these members of their
extended families have enriched their lives.
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Gazette’s annual December writing assignment.
Whether traditional companion animal or
something out of the ordinary, share your pet’s
story and we will print selected anecdotes in our
Dec. 12 issue. Don’t hesitate to make us smile,
laugh out loud or say a collective “awwww.”
Everyone who submits a tale will be included
in a drawing for great prizes from Carolina Per-forming
Arts, the Carolina Inn and PlayMakers
Repertory Company. Winners’ names will be
published in the December issue as well.
E-mail your stories of no more than 150
words to gazette@unc.edu. Be sure to tell
us if you have a photo that might illustrate
your story, too.
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Faculty advocate for partnerships to benefit state
The welfare of North Carolina depends
largely on creating partnerships between UNC
system universities and the communities of
North Carolina.
That message was repeated throughout the
Nov. 2 UNC Tomorrow listening forum in
which faculty members from the Triangle’s
public universities and the N.C. School of
Science and Mathematics shared their views
on North Carolina’s pressing issues in the
next two decades. The forum was part of a series
of public, community and university discussions
sponsored by UNC General Administra-tion
to identify the state’s needs and help
implement solutions.
Speakers advocated forging sustainable
partnerships that use the knowledge generated
by universities to address the state’s pressing busi-ness,
social, educational and environmental issues.
“We have to get the knowledge off the
hill and into the community in the form of a
partnership,” said Gary Nelson, director of the
Center for Aging Research and Educational
Services in Carolina’s School of Social Work.
Specifically, speakers wanted the state’s public
universities to differentiate their missions as
they prepared to take on real-world problems.
Issues that topped the list of needs that faculty
members expressed included defragmenting
public mental health services, addressing the
primary health-care needs of people in rural and
underserved areas, preparing North Carolinians
for an entrepreneurial economy, enhancing
technology transfer and creating translational
research opportunities.
Make teaching desirable
One resounding theme was the need to make
teaching a desirable, lucrative career.
The impact of an effective teacher on the life
path of a child should not be underestimated,
said Suzanne Gulledge, clinical professor in
Carolina’s School of Education and a member
of the Faculty Council.
“But we have to make teaching attractive
and sustainable if we want to keep people in
the classroom,” she said. “The future of our
university system is contingent on the quality of
our K-12 education.”
As the state prepares for the estimated 34,000
public school teachers it will need by 2014, it is
crucial to make teaching a career of choice, not
the “next type of migrant labor,” said Jim Martin,
professor of chemistry and chair of the faculty
at N.C. State.
Speakers suggested expanding study abroad
and language-immersion programs, offering
mentoring opportunities and sabbaticals, and
generating an excitement of learning by keeping
scholars and researchers in the classroom.
Previous forums held across the state also
raised concerns about K-12 education, said
Thomas Ricketts, professor of health policy and
administration and social medicine and a member
of the UNC Tomorrow Scholars Council.
“There is a real sense of trust in our university
system as a place where the hard problems can be
solved,” he said. “The people of North Carolina
trust us to make the future better for us all.”
Health issues
The future of health care was a prominent issue.
George Sheldon, Distinguished Professor
of surgery and research professor of social
medicine, said universities have to forge a
connection with the state’s community colleges,
particularly in helping people with basic training
prepare for higher-level careers in health care.
“There has to be a seamless evolution through
related career paths.”
Lee McLean, associate dean and chair of
allied health sciences, emphasized that many of
the people universities train today are the com-munity
college teachers of tomorrow and this
“supply line of future faculty” is crucial.
Thomas Bacon, director of the N.C. Area
Health Education Centers Program, reinforced
the expanding need to put people and medical
training opportunities where they are needed
most across the state.
Jim Porto, clinical assistant professor in Car-olina’s
School of Public Health, raised an issue
that UNC President Erskine Bowles said had
not been mentioned in previous forums: disas-ter
management.
“North Carolina will undoubtedly have
more frequent, intense disasters in the fu-ture,
and we need to be prepared with a cadre
of people trained in disaster management,”
said Porto, director of the disaster manage-ment
program. “No matter what vocation we
choose, our workers have to be prepared to
deal with disasters.”
Forum summaries
Bowles called the long-range planning of the
Scholars Council “the most important thing we
can do right now” because of its emphasis on
strategic thinking.
“We tend to think year by year because that’s
the way we are funded by the legislature,” he said.
For information about UNC Tomorrow,
including a summary of the group’s findings to
date, refer to www.nctomorrow.org.
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Jean Coble’s name was inadver-tently
left off the 2007 University
Campaign Honor Roll which was
published in the Oct. 17 issue of
the Gazette.
For the Record
November 14, 2007 3
First Faculty Engaged Scholars selected
From developing a journalism “bucket
brigade” to enhancing life and learning via
computer technology for people who have
disabilities, eight Carolina faculty will apply
their teaching and research to practical
problems in new ways.
These faculty members have been selected
as Carolina’s first class of Faculty Engaged
Scholars. In this two-year program, the
scholars will apply their skills to make a
difference in a particular community as
they connect their work with the needs of
the community.
The Faculty Engaged Scholars, selected
through a campuswide competitive process,
are addressing a variety of social, cultural,
educational and communication problems:
n Gary Bishop, professor, computer sci-ence
department — using software and tech-nology
to enhance education and computer
access for people with disabilities;
n Mimi Chapman, associate professor,
School of Social Work — enhancing the
educational climate to improve services for
Latino youth and their families in Chatham
County schools;
n Giselle Corbie-Smith, associate professor
of social medicine, medicine and epidemiology,
Schools of Medicine and Public Health —
employing photography to articulate
community-based health concerns and the
resulting dialogue;
n Dorothy Holland, professor of anthro-pology
— assessing health and economic
development benefits of rebuilding local
food systems in northeastern, southeastern
and Appalachian North Carolina;
n Jock Lauterer, lecturer, School of Journal-ism
and Mass Communication — developing
a journalism student “bucket brigade” to create
content for the Spring Hope Enterprise
while its editor-publisher recovers from
double hip replacement surgery;
n Mai Nguyen, assistant professor of
city and regional planning — revitalizing
a predominantly low-income African-
American neighborhood in Durham;
n Paul Smokowski, associate professor,
School of Social Work — creating an exhibit
on acculturation and adjustment in Latino
immigrant families, to be displayed within
communities and online; and
n Michael Waltman, associate professor,
communication studies department —
promoting tolerance and respect for social
differences via a Web site focusing on
education and communication.
Each scholar will receive a financial
stipend of up to $7,500 per year for each of
the two years.
“As the nation’s first state university,
Carolina has a strong tradition of serving the
people of North Carolina and the nation,”
said Mike Smith, vice chancellor for
public service and engagement and dean of
the School of Government.
“The Faculty Engaged Scholars program
will support faculty members who want
to join their many colleagues who already
are collaborating with communities
to apply their scholarly work to the
state’s challenges.”
The program is a new initiative of
Carolina Center for Public Service and the
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public Service
and Engagement to advance faculty involve-ment
in the scholarship of engagement.
Ronald Strauss will serve as faculty director
and Lucille Webb as community director.
“This program aims to recognize and
reward these faculty, create and sustain
a community of engaged scholars from
diverse perspectives, and to continue to build
Carolina as an institution committed to
strong university-community relationships,”
said Lynn Blanchard, director of the
Carolina Center for Public Service.
New faculty come
to Carolina, thanks
to special fund
Matthew Howard
came to Carolina in part
because of the attractive
environment — both
the temperate climate
and the engaging people.
Even more compelling
was the opportunity to do
work that could have an
impact on state, national
and international policy.
“I was very attracted to the quality faculty and
administration in the School of Social Work,
considered one of the top programs in the
country. It is such an exciting and productive
environment in which to do work that can affect
policy on a broad scale,” said Howard, Frank A.
Daniels Distinguished Professor for Human
Services Policy Information in the school.
Howard, whose extensive research interests
include the physical and mental health aspects
of drug abuse, came to Carolina last spring from
the University of Michigan. He was recruited
through a special $5 million fund initiated by
UNC President Erskine Bowles and made
possible by the N.C. General Assembly. With
the fund, designed to recruit and retain faculty
members across the UNC system, Carolina
used $1 million to successfully recruit nine
faculty members and retain six others.
Currently, Howard is studying inhalant abuse
among adolescents, particularly those using glue
and gasoline, through a federally funded grant
from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
This is a prevalent, although hidden, form of
substance abuse among adolescents, he said.
This research, and other studies Howard is
undertaking on the mental health and substance
abuse behavior in incarcerated youth and adults,
could help determine possible methods for
substance abuse treatment and care for
antisocial children and adults.
Howard holds a Ph.D. and M.S.W. from
the University of Washington–Seattle, and a
master’s of science degree in psychology from
Western Washington University.
The following new faculty members were
among those recruited through the special fund.
Nancy Allbritton
Allbritton, considered one of the most
innovative mid-career bioanalytical chemists in
cellular cancer research, came to Carolina this
summer from the University of California–
Irvine. She works on the cutting edges of
biotechnology and
biochemical engineering
to understand cancer
through the signals in
individual cells.
She has doctorate
degrees in physics,
medical engineering and
medicine from MIT
and Johns Hopkins. At
Carolina, she is the Paul
Debreczeny Distin-guished
Professor of Chemistry, working with
the Institute for Advanced Materials and the
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Replacing retiring faculty gives challenges, opportunities
When James Moeser steps down as
chancellor next year, he will leave a record
of accomplishment — from the successful
completion of the Carolina First Campaign
to the launch of the Carolina Covenant to his
stewardship over an unprecedented level of
campus construction.
But, as he admitted in his 2006 State of
the University speech, Moeser will also leave
one “big, hairy audacious goal”: the challenge
of generating $1 billion in research funding
by 2015.
That looming challenge has Robert
Lowman worried. But he is also optimistic.
And he has good reason to be both.
Lowman, associate vice chancellor for
research, documented the cause of his worry
in a white paper, “Meeting the Challenge
of a Changing Workforce,” detailing how
Carolina will be faced with replacing an
unprecedented number of aging faculty
members over the next decade.
He is worried because every top research
university in the country will be faced with
exactly the same problem and will aggressively
recruit many of the same top-level candidates
to replace their aging stars that Carolina will.
“We want the very best, most able people
we can recruit,” Lowman said. “That is the
key to being a successful research university,
and ideally, we’d like to continue to get
better and better and better, and that is why the
hiring decisions we make in the next 10 years
are going to be so critical.
“Those hiring decisions will either put
UNC-Chapel Hill on a course to sustain or
enhance its reputation as a research university
or to level off or even decline if we are not
successful at hiring the best and brightest of
this next generation.”
In fiscal 2006-07, 41 percent of Carolina’s
tenured and tenure-track faculty were
age 55 or older, a jump from 29 percent
only 10 years before. Based on current
numbers, at least 500 tenured faculty members
can be expected to retire in the next 10 years.
Lowman wrote the paper for Tony
Waldrop, vice chancellor for research and eco-nomic
development, not knowing that Moeser
would draw from it for his annual speech.
Factors in our favor
He is optimistic because Carolina has
many advantages — starting with a long-time
national reputation for collegiality and
collaboration and ending with state-of-the-
art research facilities built over the past
decade as a result of the 2000 statewide higher
education bond referendum. The bond,
coupled with aggressive private fundraising
throughout the University, will have
spurred nearly $2 billion in construction
projects between 2001 and 2009.
“I have talked to a lot of people at colleges
and universities around the country, and
I don’t know if there is something in the
water here or what, but this is a place that is
perceived to be a very special place by a lot of
people,” Lowman said.
“When faculty arrive here, and I talk to
them after they have been here a relatively
short period of time, I hear them talking
about the collaborative environment here,
the collegiality that they feel among their
faculty colleagues, the ease with which they
have been able to establish new contacts and
potential collaborators for their research.”
Lowman credited Carolina’s deans of the
medical school for their contributions. “We
have been blessed with visionary leaders in
our School of Medicine who understood the
importance, from a scientific standpoint, of
being an integral part of the University with
everything that that entails.”
The University’s centers and institutions
including the Lineberger Comprehensive
Cancer Center, the Cecil G. Sheps Center
for Health Services Research and the
Carolina Population Center also rely on
collaborative endeavors.
“These centers exist to foster multi-disciplinary
collaboration and they have
been phenomenally successful,” Lowman
said. “They work on the basis of an interest
in a problem rather than what disciplinary
background you happen to come from.”
Lowman said the Carolina campus itself
was another major reason collaboration was
such a part of the culture. “Our health affairs
campus and our academic affairs campus are
one. We’re contiguous. We’re all right here.”
That may not seem like much of an
advantage, Lowman said, until you go else-where
where the medical schools are separated
from the rest of campus, not by feet, but
miles. An extreme example is Cornell, where
the university is in Ithaca and the medical
school is in Manhattan.
“Having that easy availability for meetings
and conferences and being able to get together
and go eyeball to eyeball in conversations is a
tremendous advantage, and so is being able to
hire graduate students who can easily go back
and forth from one lab to the other.”
That proximity may have once been
an historical accident, but construction
over the past decade has been guided by
a new campus master plan predicated on
See Retiring Faculty, page 12
howard
allbritton
See Recruitment, page 12
4 University Gazette
Flu case confirmed in North Carolina
Slots still open for flu shots at UNC
The state’s first case of flu this season —
Type A — has been confirmed by state
officials. Of the two types of influenza
that commonly infect humans, Type A is
generally more serious than Type B, N.C.
Epidemiologist Jeff Engel said.
The good news is that this year’s vaccine
is targeted at this particular type of
flu, he said. Type A has accounted for
a large percentage of flu cases in the
southern hemisphere during flu season.
The other good news is that there is
plenty of flu vaccine to go around.
In partnership with the State Health
Plan, flu shots are being offered for Carolina
employees only through Dec. 5.
Shots are free to employees covered
under the State Health Plan, or one of the
state’s preferred provider organization
(PPO) plans. Non-members will pay $25
by cash or check at the time of vaccina-tion
and obtain reimbursement from their
insurance company.
At the time of the appointment, be
prepared to present the State Health Plan/
PPO card along with a photo ID. An
e-mail reminder will be sent two days prior
to appointments.
Refer to page 16 to see a list of the times
and locations for the clinics. Register online
at ehs.unc.edu. For more information,
call 962-5507.
Carolina’s no-smoking policy
reduces secondhand smoke risk
There is no known safe level of exposure to
secondhand smoke.
Adults who are exposed to secondhand
smoke experience immediate adverse effects on
their cardiovascular systems, which can lead to
coronary heart disease.
These are among the conclusions of the U.S.
Surgeon General’s 2006 report, The Health
Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to
Tobacco Smoke.
The report concludes that even short-term
exposure to tobacco smoke is hazardous, said
Adam Goldstein, professor of family medicine
and director of the School of Medicine’s
Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Program.
“In the past, we thought there had to be
cumulative, long-term exposure to tobacco
smoke to be harmful, but that isn’t what the sur-geon
general’s report shows,” he said. “The more
we’re exposed to secondhand smoke, the worse
it is, so there is no safe threshold. That’s why the
new policy at UNC is so beneficial; it removes
that risk of exposure to secondhand smoke.”
Beginning Jan. 1, 2008, smoking will not be
allowed within 100 feet of all facilities controlled
by the University, both on and off campus. That
includes any facility in which the University
leases the entire space. The smoking ban also
applies to state-owned vehicles.
In addition, there will be no designated
University smoking areas. The practical effect
of the policy is that Carolina will be smoke-free,
Chancellor James Moeser said when he
announced the new policy.
“It isn’t simply a choice of whether to smoke
or not smoke, but a choice not to be exposed
to secondhand smoke at all. Essentially, if
you can smell smoke whatsoever, you have
raised your risk for cancer and heart disease,”
Goldstein said. “This policy is a big step for our
university, and it shows real leadership for the
entire nation.”
While life-threatening illnesses such as heart
disease and lung cancer are associated with
cumulative risk, that risk goes down immedi-ately
when exposure to secondhand smoke is
eliminated, he said.
For someone with a smoke-sensitive condition
such as asthma, obstructive pulmonary disease,
chronic sinus problems or a heart condition,
exposure to secondhand smoke can literally
be deadly, he said. “It is as much a disability to
someone with such a condition as climbing a set
of stairs without assistance is to someone who
is paralyzed.”
A changing environment
When people smoke in inside environments,
they clearly expose non-smokers to the harmful
effects of smoking, which has led to bans across
the country. Now society is aware that all
exposure, including that in outdoor environ-ments,
is harmful, Goldstein said. Even the
tobacco industry has research that shows the
health hazards, he explained.
Further, a primary target of tobacco
advertising is the college-aged population,
the group that has the highest smoking rate of
any age group in North Carolina, he said.
“We might not be able to compete with the
money spent enticing college students to use
tobacco, but we can establish an environment
supporting the norm that our campus is a
healthy place for people to be — not only for
our students, but for our faculty, staff, visitors
and patients as well,” Goldstein said.
In July, the University’s medical facilities
went smoke-free when UNC Health Care,
the School of Medicine and Campus Health
Services banned smoking anywhere on the
grounds and parking areas surrounding
the buildings.
Already, the effect is noticeable, Goldstein said.
In a survey of UNC Hospitals employees,
25 percent of respondents who were smokers
said they quit smoking leading up to the ban. An
increase in smoking cessation is not unusual, he
said, since three-quarters of smokers typically
indicate a desire to quit smoking and providing
a no-smoking environment encourages people
to enroll in smoking cessation programs.
The University is providing a variety of
resources to help students, faculty and staff who
would like to quit smoking. Information about
smoking cessation assistance for faculty and staff
is available on the Department of Environment,
Health and Safety Web site, ehs.unc.edu. The
School of Medicine’s Nicotine Dependence
Program site, www.ndp.unc.edu, also includes
resources for employees and patients.
The sites include a list of frequently asked
questions, information about making clinic
appointments and additional help resources
inside and outside the University.
Employees can receive
help with E-Pay transition
In early 2008, Payroll Services will
discontinue distribution of paper paychecks
and all employees will be paid through direct
deposit. In April, the paper pay stubs will be
discontinued and employees will access their
pay information via the Web.
The last paycheck or pay stub in October
included information about this change.
To help employees make the transition,
the Finance Division is providing training
about enrolling in direct deposit and accessing
electronic pay stubs. The sessions also will
include information about creating Onyen
accounts (the campus sign-on name provided
to Carolina faculty, staff and students) and
managing passwords, both of which employees
will need to access their electronic pay stubs.
Separate training sessions on checking account
maintenance are also available.
Training sessions are scheduled in the
following locations, which are accessible by
Chapel Hill Transit:
n Nov. 20 and 28, and Dec. 12 — Porthole
Building, 100 Porthole Alley (behind the
Carolina Coffee Shop off Franklin Street); and
n Dec. 18 — Health Sciences Library,
Room 328 (335 S. Columbia Street across
from the School of Public Health).
Information on Onyen account manage-ment
and the E-Pay process will be offered at
9:35 a.m., 11:35 a.m., 1:35 p.m. and 3:35 p.m.
Checking account maintenance sessions
will be offered on the same dates at 8:30 a.m.,
10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Employees also can receive information
without attending a training session.
Representatives from local banks and credit
unions will be outside the training rooms to
answer questions or help employees set up
a direct deposit account. Information about
University and community financial resources
will also be available.
For more information about E-Pay, refer to
www.unc.edu/finance/payroll/epay/index.
htm or contact Stephanie Kidd at slkidd@
email.unc.edu or 843-0383.
Registration is not required for any of the
training sessions. For more information about
the training, contact financetrainer@unc.edu
or call 843-3069.
aging research retreat
Margaret Dardess, associate vice chancellor for strategic alliances,
presents opening remarks before a campus retreat on aging Oct. 29.
More than 115 leading researchers in aging at UNC gathered to
discuss the depth, breadth, interdisciplinary linkages and future
direction of the University’s aging research. The retreat was organized
by the Institute on Aging in collaboration with the Center for Aging
and Health at the request of Tony Waldrop, vice chancellor for
research and economic development.
November 14, 2007 5
News Briefs
SEC: going for the goal
There are nearly 1,000 charities from which
Carolina employees can choose to designate
their donations to this year’s State Employees
Combined Campaign (SECC). The monies
collected support the elderly who need a hot
meal, cancer research, the homeless, the N.C.
Children’s Hospital and many other charities
that provide assistance to those in need.
Since the campaign began on Oct. 1,
$363,073.41 has been pledged as of Nov. 9
toward the $850,000 goal. Organizers agree that
while the campus campaign is on track, there is
still a way to go to meet the goal before the cam-paign
ends.
Information Technology Services has cooked
up a fiery venture to raise money for the SECC.
Employees are holding a chili cook-off at
11:30 a.m. on Nov. 15 in the courtyard of the 440
Building on West Franklin Street. For a suggested
minimum donation of $4, they will provide
homemade chili, cornbread and desserts. After-ward
guests can vote for their favorite chili with
dollars, and all money raised will go to the SECC.
There is still time to turn in pledge forms
before the end of the campaign, and units across
campus are offering incentives in the form of
weekly raffles. For more information about the
SECC, or to learn who your team captains or
division leaders are, call Devan Donaldson or
Jeffrey Tibbs at 962-8366 or visit the Web site:
www.unc.edu/secc.
Nov. 15 telethon to benefit N.C.
Children’s Hospital
For the sixth year, North Carolina Children’s
Hospital will reach out to more than 1.5 million
people across the state on Nov. 15 in a live
radio and television fundraiser. That day, 17
radio stations owned by Raleigh-based Curtis
Media Group will broadcast the N.C.
Children’s Promise Radiothon/Telethon live
from the lobby of the children’s hospital. Time
Warner Cable’s News 14 Carolina will provide
extensive television coverage.
The radiothon/telethon will begin at 5 a.m.
and continue until 11:30 p.m. Listeners and
viewers are invited to phone in their contribu-tions
throughout the day at 1-866-9-NC-KIDS
(1-866-962-5437) or donate online through
the N.C. Children’s Promise Web site (www.
ncchildrenspromise.org).
International Education Week
features drumming, story telling
Myriad activities have been scheduled
across campus during the celebration of
International Education Week.
On Nov. 15, faculty, staff and students can
take advantage of the third annual Get-a-Pass-port
Drive to apply for or renew a passport —
and have passport photos taken at the same time
for $10. Visit global.unc.edu for details about
the event and to learn about required documen-tation
and methods of payment. The event will
be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 4003 of
the FedEx Global Education Center.
Also on Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. the center’s auditorium
will fill with a free Japanese drumming
performance by Triangle Taiko. The ensemble
combines music and movements drawn
from the martial arts to produce high-energy
drumming. In the past Taiko drums were used
THE SYMBOL OF ALTRUISM
in villages as a way to signal residents of coming
storms, a new harvest or a battle command.
On Nov. 16, Chan E. Park, associate professor
of Korean Language, Literature and Performance
Studies at Ohio State University, will take
part in “P’ansori: Traditional Korean Music
and Storytelling,” to be held at 2 p.m. at 103
Graham Memorial Hall in the Johnston Center
for Undergraduate Excellence.
In her lecture Park will examine the social,
aesthetic and performative existence of
traditional music in contemporary Korea,
giving special attention to the p’ansori story-singing
tradition. The performance, free
and open to the public, is sponsored by the
Korea Foundation, UNC-Global Initiatives,
Carolina Asia Center, the departments of
Asian studies and music and the Association
of Asian Studies.
Refer to the calendar on page 16 or the Web
site (www.global.unc.edu) for information
about other events.
‘The Little Prince’
lands at PlayMakers
Cherished by adults and children alike,
Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s classic “The
Little Prince” is filled with all of the whimsy,
exuberance and innocence of childhood. When
a disenchanted Aviator crashes his plane in the
Sahara, he is surprised to meet an ethereal visitor
from a faraway star. Through the startling
insights shared by this “Little Prince,” the Aviator
is reminded of what is truly important in life.
The play opens Nov. 28 and runs through
Dec. 16. Because of the play’s appeal to children,
the special family holiday production begins at
7 p.m. to make it more accessible for children.
For show times and more information, call
962-PLAY (7529) or refer to www.playmak-ersrep.
org. Tickets are $10 to $40, depending
on day of the week.
Work from Duke migrant project
to be previewed Nov. 29
On Nov. 29, Earl Dotter and Tennessee
Watson, photographer and audio producer
respectively, will present new work from a
project in Maine where an estimated 10,000 to
15,000 migrant farm workers are employed in
harvesting crops by hand. It will be held at
7 p.m. in Hyde Hall.
The project is supported by the Center for
Documentary Studies at Duke University.
For more information, see cds.aas.duke.edu/
events/engagingdocumentary.html.
Winter Stories program
features storytelling, music
Friends of the Library will sponsor “Holiday
Spirit,” the 15th annual Winter Stories program
for children of all ages on Dec. 6. Brian Sturm,
associate professor in the School of Information
and Library Science, will return with professional
story telling to continue this popular tradition of
words and music.
“Winter Stories” will begin with a reception
in the lobby of Wilson Library at 5 p.m. The
program will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Pleasants
Family Assembly Room.
The program is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Liza Terll
(962-4207 or liza_terll@unc.edu).
Humanities program takes
a look at xenophobia
As part of its Adventures in Ideas seminars,
the Program in the Humanities and Human
Values has invited four scholars to analyze
xenophobia — the fear of strangers in our midst
whose ethnic or cultural identities and practices
bring out the worst in us.
The seminar will begin at 4:30 p.m. on
Dec. 7 and wrap up Dec. 8 at 1 p.m. Tuition
is $120. Call 962-1544 to register, or for more
information and to register online, see www.
unc.edu/depts/human.
Apply by Dec. 12 for
entrepreneurship program
Applications are being accepted through
Dec. 12 for the new Graduate Certificate
Program in Entrepreneurship, both the
introductory course alone or the full nine-credit-hour
sequence.
The program begins in January 2008 for
graduate and post-doctoral students, and full-time
faculty and staff who wish to complement
their studies with an exploration of how
entrepreneurship is changing their fields
and how to conceive, plan and execute new
commercial and nonprofit ventures.
The certificate is offered in three tracks: artistic,
life sciences and public health entrepreneurship.
Visit www.unc.edu/cei/grad for details and
to apply.
This is a new program of the Carolina
Entrepreneurial Initiative, co-sponsored by
The Graduate School and Kenan Institute of
Private Enterprise.
EARTH to benefit UNC Eating
Disorders Program
Members of the public are invited to attend
EARTH, a unique culinary experience in
Belmont, on Nov. 17 at 6:30 p.m.
The event is a fundraiser for the University’s
Eating Disorders Program and aims to raise
global awareness of eating disorders. It will
feature tasting stations from 12 renowned
chefs. The event will feature two musical per-formances,
a silent auction and a live auction.
See News Briefs, page 13
A metal pelican sculpture now presides over the rooftop garden
of the Carrington Hall addition, the sustainable landscape that
captures 70 percent of rainwater that falls on the building. Fabricated
by Carrboro artist Mike Roig, the pelican was commissioned by the
Class of 1967 in memory of Cheryl “Sparkie” Alexander. Not only
was the pelican Alexander’s favorite animal, but it also represents
altruism, a key component of the nursing profession.
contributed
6 University Gazette
‘Doing the right thing,’ every day, earns Bowers recognition
Some people do great things because of the
attention they might get.
Other people do great things because of
some inner compass they feel obliged to follow
that not only tells right from wrong, but
compels them to do what they know is right.
You don’t have to know Terry Bowers long
to know into which category he belongs.
“I thought that was over and done with,”
Bowers said from a cell phone number that
someone in his department had provided for
Bowers’ interview about winning a 2007 C.
Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award
last spring.
“I don’t know what you want me to say,”
Bowers said.
“Well,” the impatient voice on the other
end of the line said, “I just want to ask a few
questions.���
“What for?” Bowers demanded.
“So I can tell people about some of the
unique qualities you possess that made you
stand out as an extraordinary employee.”
That appeal fell flat.
“God makes us all the same,” Bowers said.
“I’m just a person. We are all blessed to be at
this great institution. It’s a privilege.”
Then Bowers continued arguing that no
story should be written about him at all. “I’ll
be retiring at the end of the year, anyway,” he
said, as if that would somehow cancel any-one’s
interest in him.
“I respect your desire to be left alone,” the
voice on the other end ventured. “But if you
refuse to let me write your story, you will be
keeping me from doing my job.”
With that, there was a long silence, as if
Bowers’ internal compass was twirling in an
unexpected direction. Although he didn’t
want a big story written about him, neither
would it be right for him to keep another man
from doing his job.
“How much time do you need?”
‘Great pride in his work’
He is an electronics technician by trade
working in Housing Support.
In Bowers’ mind, that job and the way he
performs it make him no different or better
than anybody else, but that claim would draw
an argument from many of the men who have
worked with him over the years.
Among them is Marcus Bullett, who in
the nominating letter, wrote: “Terry Bowers
is one of the most valuable employees that
the University of North Carolina could
ever ask for.”
In the four years he had known Bowers,
Bullett continued, he had yet to meet another
employee who cared about the students, the
University or his job more.
“He has always stepped up to any challenge
without complaining,” Bullett said, and he is
always the first to step up whenever there is
an emergency.
During Hurricane Isabel, for instance,
Bowers and his wife, Dianne (a patient
accounts manager for UNC Hospitals),
stayed on campus to be available to respond to
whatever need might arise.
“His love for helping people is another
quality that is appreciated,” Bullett added.
Larry Hicks, director of housing and
residential education, described how “Terry’s
positive attitude and willingness to take on
additional responsibilities” set him apart. In
housing construction, the challenge is to ensure
that the facilities are ready when students arrive.
“I never have to worry about the electrical
part of the project,” Hicks said. “It will be
done on time, and done right. Terry is the
consummate professional that takes personal
pride in his work and that of his team.”
Hicks said Bowers was trained as an
electrician and was largely self-taught as an
electronics technician. In that role, Hicks
added, Bowers was a driving force in the
installation of a networked electronic access
control system that spans 38 residence halls and
nine family apartment buildings across campus.
The highly successful project has enhanced the
security for more than 8,500 students.
In the 13 years Hicks worked as housing
support superintendent, Bowers was one of
the handful of employees Hicks said he could
count on to respond to any emergency, from
manning a chain saw after Hurricane Fran
to using a snow shovel to clear steps and
sidewalks around residence halls.
“His work ethic is unsurpassed and he stays
with the problem until he is
sure he is no longer needed,”
Hicks wrote. “I realize there
are many unsung employees
at UNC who perform for no
other reason than to do their
best, but I don’t think you could
find one any more dedicated to
this school or its students than
Terry Bowers.”
Doing the right thing
Bowers said he came by his
work ethic early because he had to.
His dad died when he was
about 13 and Bowers, the
oldest of two brothers and four
sisters, was thrust instantly into
being the head of the family. His
mother did the best she could to
keep food on the table and cover
the rent by working long hours
in a cotton mill.
But she depended on her
children to do what they could
to help her make ends meet.
Bowers started out pumping gas
at the Texaco station on Highway
70 outside of Hillsborough before
he was old enough to drive. He
made $1 an hour. Later, he hired
on doing electrical work for different outfits.
“You did what you had to do,” Bowers said.
“But we all did it together. A family is a family.”
As soon as he graduated from Orange
County High School in 1970, he married his
high school sweetheart, Dianne Summey.
Making ends meet as a husband and soon-to-
be-father of a son and a daughter didn’t
get any easier.
As Dianne recalled, “He always worked at
least two jobs. Sometimes, he worked three
and he always threw in some weekend work at
the service station.”
In 1971, Dianne got a job at UNC Hospitals
in medical information management and
is now a patient accounts manager. At her
coaxing, her husband came to work at the
University two-and-a-half-years later.
Their daughter, Tammy, was born in
1971, their son, Todd, in 1974. His boy,
Bowers said, is now 32 and battling a severe
form of melanoma. “He fights it every day,”
Bowers said.
Talking of his son led Bowers to talk about
one of his sisters who had died of the disease,
and his own battle with prostate cancer that
was discovered last October. They did not
catch it as early as doctors would have liked,
Bowers said, but he feels good about it since
he had the surgery on Feb. 7.
He lost nine days of work and would
have come back sooner but he had to wait
until they removed a tube. Even then, he
marked down the days he was out as vacation
because he had so many days he hadn’t used
over the years.
His operation, Bowers added, was nothing
compared to what Dianne went through
in January 2001 when she gave one of her
kidneys to Serena Wilson, a co-worker
at the hospital and a friend they knew
through church.
When asked if he supported his wife’s
decision to take such a risk with her own
health, he said, “I told her she had to do what
is right and righteous.”
Asked if he was a religious man, Bowers
answered, “I believe in Jesus Christ.” His
church is Mars Hill Baptist Church on
Highway 57 north of Hillsborough.
He has attended that church ever since he
began dating Dianne. “Her daddy, Lawrence
Summey, said I couldn’t date her unless I
went, and that’s the way it was.”
A lifetime at Carolina
They have attended Mars Hill Baptist
only slightly longer than they have worked at
Carolina, Bowers said.
When they retire at the end of December,
Dianne will have put in 37 years to his 35, not
counting the two-and-a-half years of accumulated
sick leave he will be credited when he retires.
Both said that working here has been a pure
blessing. As for winning the Massey, he didn’t
expect to win the award, Dianne said, or know
exactly how to react to all the attention that
came with it.
As she put it, “He is all about doing the
right thing no matter what and he doesn’t
do it for the glory. He does it because it’s the
right thing.”
Bowers had an easier time handling the
money that comes with a Massey. After taxes,
he said, the $6,000 award came to a little more
than $3,000 and he handed it all to cancer
research. “I didn’t have the money before and
people fighting cancer need that money more
than I do,” he said.
At that, Bowers indicated that the 15 minutes
he had agreed to answer questions was about
up. “I’ve got to do a day’s work to get a day’s
pay,” he said.
On a whim, the questioner asked Bowers
what he had been so busy doing during his
lunch break that he had needed to call back to
do the interview later that afternoon.
He replied that he had to drive out to the
plant to find a co-worker who was sick with
cancer. The man had just about run out of
sick leave and Bowers wanted to see how
many hours of sick leave he could donate to
get the man through.
“Was he a good friend?” the questioner asked.
“Didn’t even know him,” Bowers said.
“Why did you think to give a man you
don’t even know your unused sick leave?” he
was asked.
“Because the man needed it more than me,”
Bowers answered with a hint of impatience.
The answer to that question, of course,
was totally unnecessary. As Bowers knows,
there are some things a man does that speak
for themselves.
Terry Bowers, an electronics technician who will retire at year’s end after 35 years, poses in front of Old East.
Thirty-five-year employee earns a Massey as he nears retirement
November 14, 2007 7
Sit in on ‘A Conversation with Ted Turner’ Nov. 19
Former PBS President
Pat Mitchell will inter-view
Ted Turner, the
pioneering founder of
CNN, about his work,
philanthropy and life in
“A Conversation with
Ted Turner.” The free
public program will take
place at 4 p.m. Nov. 19
in Memorial Hall.
Turner comes to Carolina as the Frey
Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor
in the College of Arts and Sciences. The
Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative will
co-sponsor the program.
As owner and chair of Turner Broadcasting
System Inc. (TBS Inc.), Turner launched
some of the most recognized brands in the
world, including flagship TBS Supersta-tion
(TBS), Turner Network Television
(TNT), Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and
Cartoon Network.
Turner’s most successful network, CNN,
the world’s first 24-hour cable news network,
revolutionized news media practices with its
“all news, all the time” format and attention
to international coverage. TBS Inc. and its
various networks and brands are now owned
by Time Warner.
Currently, Turner chairs the Turner
Foundation, which supports efforts to improve
air and water quality, develop a sustainable
energy future, maintain wildlife habitat
protection and develop
practices and policies to
curb population growth
rates. He co-chairs
the Nuclear Threat
Initiative and chairs the
United Nations Foun-dation
and Turner
Enterprises Inc. He is a
partner in DT Solar, a
provider of solar energy
technology.
In 2000, Mitchell became the first woman to
be president and chief executive officer (CEO)
of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Today
she is president and CEO of The Paley Center
for Media (formerly The Museum of Television
and Radio), with locations in New York
City and Los Angeles. The Paley Center’s
assortment of radio, television and advertising
content serves as a lens for exploring the
impact of media on life, culture and society. The
center is home to an international collection
of more than 140,000 programs covering
almost 100 years of television and radio history.
During Mitchell’s 30-year career as a
journalist, producer and media executive, her
work has received 44 Emmy Awards and two
Academy Award nominations. She is vice chair
of the Sundance Institute board; a founding
member of Mikhail Gorbachev’s global
environmental organization, Global Green
USA; a member of the Human Rights Watch
board of directors; a member of the Mayo
Clinic’s board of trustees; and on the corporate
boards of Bank of America, Participant
Productions and Sun Microsystems Inc.
The Frey Foundation Professorship was
established in 1989 to bring to campus distin-guished
leaders from a variety of fields. The
late Edward J. and Frances Frey of Grand
Rapids, Mich., established the foundation in
1974. Their son, alumnus David Gardner
Frey, chairs the foundation.
turner
mitchell
Employee Forum changes cycle for officers’ terms
In past years, the end of the calendar year
has marked the season of transition for the
Employee Forum.
Typically, in November the forum nomi-nated
candidates for upcoming officers,
and in December the slate of candidates
gave speeches, members voted and the
new officers were announced. December
also marked the last meeting for those
delegates whose four-year terms were coming
to an end.
That changed at the Nov. 7 forum meeting,
thanks to a new policy the forum approved to
put the election cycle of delegates and officers
in sync with the fiscal year, said Employee
Forum Chair Ernie Patterson. It made sense
for a new chair to take office at the start of a
new fiscal year, not midway through it, he said.
To accommodate that change, delegates
whose terms would have expired in
December will continue to serve on the
board through the end of June, as will the
board officers.
The forum also swore in new delegates
to fill the terms of delegates whose
participation had dropped off because of
work commitments or other factors.
Patterson said it was normal to have
about a dozen vacant positions out of the 60
delegate positions as delegates neared the
end of their terms. With the extended terms,
he said, it was important to fill out the roster
with people who wanted to serve.
The new delegates include some familiar
faces, such as former chair Tommy Griffin
and former vice chair Katherine Graves.
Other new delegates are Megan Bell,
Laurie Norman, Jonathan Stephenson,
Joe Marro, Donna Brooks, Charles
Streeter, Zach Fisher, Dan Barmmer and
Pat Bigelow.
Another new policy calls for the outgoing
chair to remain on the forum an additional
year even if the person’s four-year term as a
forum delegate expired.
Patterson, who will be the first to stay on
an extra year based on the new policy, said
the change was made to ensure a smoother
transition and better continuity.
Issues to address
Patterson devoted most of the three-hour
meeting to one item on the agenda:
listening to delegates identify issues of
concern that they would like the forum to
address in the coming year.
Patterson said the issues raised would
be referred to appropriate committees,
which would use the comments as a basis to
present their priorities for the coming year at
the December meeting.
Most of the issues raised were not
new, but one common theme seemed
to be a call for better communication —
among delegates themselves, between
Human Resources and employees,
and between the forum and the wider
University community.
Jackie Overton, a staff development
specialist with Public Safety, began the
discussion by joking that one thing that could
not be discussed was parking.
Then, on a serious note, she said that one
of her pet peeves was not starting meet-ings
on time. She also insisted that she
would like to “see some sense of respect and
civility restored to the forum.”
She also suggested that the forum “let go
of the things we can’t change and focus on
the things we can.”
Delegates also said that information about
benefits should be communicated as plainly
as possible because of the range of literacy
levels among employees.
Vice Chair David Brannigan said the
forum needed to consider a newspaper of
its own so that it could print its message
instead of relying on the Gazette.
Since its October meeting, the forum has
published a special edition of its electronic
“In Touch” newsletter devoted exclusively
to the issue of collective bargaining,
available at forum.unc.edu.
Michael McQuown, a media technician
with the School of Public Health, said the
forum had passed a number of resolutions on
a range of issues the past year, and it needed
to do a better job of following up on each
resolution to see whether it had accomplished
its intended effect. McQuown was instru-mental
in crafting the language for many of
the resolutions.
There was considerable discussion about
how to recognize employees for their
service in a way that seemed more real and
warm, less cold and impersonal.
Jill Crowder, administrative assistant in
Grounds Services, said she received a paper
from Human Resources that was a black-and-
white photocopy and included
a stamped-on signature from Brenda
Malone, associate vice chancellor for
human resources.
Cutting costs is a good idea, Crowder
said, but it should not be done in a way
that cheapened a gesture intended to make
employees feel valued and appreciated.
“That was so insulting I threw it in the
garbage,” Crowder said.
Malone did not take issue with Crowder’s
criticism. “This is why this is so helpful,”
Malone said. ���I didn’t even know I sent (the
letter) out.”
Council examines
priority registration,
research funding
Some Carolina students are eligible to
register for courses ahead of their classmates.
Known as priority registration, it is a common
practice among universities to accommodate
students with special needs and students
whose university requirements or obligations
create unusual academic challenges.
While most universities have such a system,
the structure varies from school to school,
said Steve Reznick, director of developmental
psychology and chair of the Priority Registration
Task Force.
“Our current system is really a complex web
of permissions, traditions and precedents,”
Reznick said at the Nov. 9 Faculty Council
meeting. “This task force wants to replace
that system with a transparent, regulated one
with systematic oversight.”
Conversations about fine-tuning Carolina’s
system began last fall with the Faculty
Committee on Athletics, which established the
task force. Athletes who practice the maximum
20 hours per week allowed by the NCAA are
eligible for priority registration consideration.
Other groups that might be eligible include
students with disabilities, students studying
abroad and students whose majors require
a practicum or clinic for licensure, such as
education, nursing and allied health.
Under the new proposal, a University official
responsible for potentially eligible students
would forward students’ names and a
rationale to the University Registrar. A tally
and the rationale statements, but not the
names of the students, would then be sent to
the Priority Registration Advisory Committee
(PRAC) for final determination. Meetings of
the PRAC and its decisions would be public.
In general, no more than 25 percent of the
seats in each course section would be available
for priority registration, according to the
proposal. Students who were granted permission
to register early would be moved to the head of
their cohort. For example, juniors given priority
status would register ahead of other juniors,
but not before seniors.
Concerns raised by the council included
whether non-priority students would be
closed out of required courses for their
majors, whether individuals, not only
groups, should be able to qualify for priority
status and whether students’ extracurricular
obligations should be singled out over
academic ones. The Office of Faculty
Governance plans to establish an online
discussion board for faculty members to air
additional questions or concerns.
In December, the council will consider the
task force’s proposal, which has been endorsed
by the athletics committee, the Educational
Policy Committee and Student Government
representatives. If adopted, the task force
recommended that the process be considered
“a four-year experiment” and reviewed again
at that time.
Future research directions
A four-member panel discussed challenges
See Council, page 14
FACULTY COUNCIL
EMPLOYEE FORUM
8 University Gazette
Experts called the drought of 2002 the worst
the state had ever seen. But this year’s drought
has already edged out the 2002 drought for
that distinction. What is even worse is that this
year’s drought appears to have no end in sight.
The “U.S. Drought Monitor,” published by
the National Weather Service, reported that the
drought in the East Coast area including North
Carolina will continue through January because
of La Niña conditions — and could intensify.
The University has responded to this year’s
water shortage in the same way it did five years
ago. It has urged employees, both at home
and at work, to limit their water use. It has
constructed new buildings designed to capture
and reuse rainwater; it has limited the
irrigation of athletic fields to a level necessary
for the players’ safety; and it has installed new
“waterless” toilets.
Chancellor James Moeser, in an Oct. 29
summary to UNC President Erskine Bowles,
reported annualized water savings of 25 percent.
Moeser also called attention to the chilled water
savings yet to be realized this winter.
Since the peak cooling system ended in
October, Moeser wrote, water consumption
will be reduced about 75 percent compared to
peak demand.
In addition, Carolina, in partnership with
Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA),
is constructing a system that will provide highly
treated, or “reclaimed,” water from OWASA’s
Mason Farm Sewage Treatment Plant to
replace potable water use in Carolina’s water
system cooling towers. (Potable water is
water suitable for drinking because it contains
no harmful elements).
The system, when it comes on line in 2009,
will permanently eliminate the use of more than
200 million gallons of potable water a year.
Engineers from OWASA and the University’s
Energy Services Department are also at work
studying whether temporary above-ground
piping from the sewage treatment plant to some
of the chilled water plants could be installed in
time for the 2008 cooling season.
Students as well as employees have been
asked to do their part — and are responding to
the challenge.
Students in Carolina’s residence halls have
engaged in friendly competition with their
counterparts at N.C. State to see which group
can save the most water between last Saturday’s
Carolina-State football game in Raleigh and
Feb. 20, 2008, the day the men’s basketball
teams will face off on the court.
Carolina officials plan periodic readings of
water meters that will be posted along with
updates on the Sustainability Office Web site,
sustainability.unc.edu.
“We’re calling on students in our residence
halls to be creative and have some fun while
stepping up to meet this challenge,” said Eve
Carson, president of the Student Government,
and Brian Sugg, president of the Residence Hall
Association, in their e-mail to residence hall
students. “To those of you who have already
been doing your part, thank you. Now we’re
asking everyone to cut back even more.”
Moeser said that students’ conservation
efforts are key because water use in residence
halls represents more than 30 percent of the
University’s yearly water demand.
OWASA, which provides water and sewer
services for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area,
including the University, has reported that its
reservoirs are about half full.
The late-October rainfall had a nominal
effect on replenishing the water supply because
the ground was dry and ponds in the OWASA’s
watersheds were low. Assuming no additional
rainfall, the water on hand would last six to
seven months, OWASA officials said.
OWASA also reported that the community’s
overall water usage has dropped in response to
the crisis, but its customers needed to cut back
even more.
In the first week of November, OWASA
customers averaged using about eight million
gallons per day — down from water usage
exceeding nine million gallons per day in early
and mid-October. But the water conservation
goal for a “Stage Two” water shortage, declared
by OWASA Oct. 18, is to limit demand to
7.3 million gallons per day or less, OWASA
officials said.
For information about campus sustainability
initiatives, refer to sustainability.unc.edu. For
general water conservation information, refer
to www.owasa.org.
University reports 25 percent reduction in water consumption
University water savings estimates for 2007
n 75 percent reduction in chilled water production from peak summer
demand (projected 155,466,000 gallons)
n Rainwater capture systems (1,356,226 gallons)
n Water-free urinals (2,128,000 gallons)
n Ultra low-flush urinals (126,685 gallons)
n Dual-flush toilet valves (489,134 gallons)
n New toilets at North Carolina Botanical Garden (88,920 gallons)
n Low-flow showerheads (38,225 gallons)
n Frontloading washing machines (1,035,299 gallons)
n Metered or infrared faucets (1,608,779)
n Discontinued spray irrigation on landscape (12,000,000 gallons)
n Reduced/discontinued irrigation of athletic fields (10,920,000 gallons)
n Discontinued window washing for 130 buildings (16,848,000 gallons)
n Discontinued decorative fountains (168,000 gallons)
n Discontinued vehicle washing (255,000 gallons)
n Repaired pipe leak near South Chiller Plant (3,700,000 gallons)
n Closed loop stills in laboratories (2,509,200 gallons)
n New filter system for Woollen Gym pools (163,800 gallons)
Connolly helps troops overseas
On last count, more than 525 boxes weighing
7,000-plus pounds had already been postmarked
and sent overseas to U.S. service personnel
deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For 22 months Robert Connolly, associate
professor of finance and economics in the
Kenan-Flagler Business School, and his wife
have recruited the help of many University
faculty, staff and students to collect and organize
care packages to send abroad. Connolly said he
had learned that the people who receive these
care packages appreciate that “they haven’t been
forgotten by the rest of us.”
Currently, the couple is undertaking a specific
project for the winter: supplying the 173rd
Airborne, which is deployed in the mountains
of eastern Afghanistan, with the necessary
supplies to make it through both a holiday
season away from home and a harsh winter.
Members of the brigade will be spending the
winter at various outposts and forward operating
bases along the Pakistan border. Receiving
supplies is often challenging due to the weather
and terrain in the region.
Based on e-mail interaction with company-level
officers and senior non-commissioned
officers, Connolly is putting out a plea for the
following items:
n Coffee mugs with tops (Thermos)
n Nalgene bottles
n Ramen noodles
n Dry soup mixes of the “just add water”
variety
n Coffee
n Hygiene items
n Leftover Halloween candy
n Hot chocolate mix
n Recent magazines
n Healthy snacks
n Tea
To help ensure that the brigade receives the
care packages before Christmas, Connolly is
requesting donations as quickly as possible. His
goal is to send them by Nov. 28. Items may be
dropped off at Connolly’s office in Room 4415
of the McColl Building or left with Barbara Ann
Aversano in the MBA program office.
Robert Connolly stands over the collected goods for
care packages destined for U.S. service personnel.
More than 100 ROTC midshipmen
and cadets assembled in dress
uniform at the Nov. 9 Veterans Day
ceremony held at the Newman
Catholic Student Center Parish. Brig.
Gen. Margaret C. Wilmoth (right)
spoke at the free public event. This
year’s ceremony was sponsored by
the Army ROTC Unit, the College of
Arts and Sciences and the Curriculum
in Peace, War and Defense. Veterans
Day, formerly called Armistice Day,
falls on Nov. 11, the anniversary
of the armistice signing by the
Allies and Germans in 1918 that
ended World War I.
honoring our veterans
November 14, 2007 9
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Faculty/Staff News & Notes
Decorat ions & Distinctions
Jones to step
down as Kenan-
Flagler dean
Steve Jones, dean of the Kenan-Flagler
Business School since 2003, will step down
when his five-year term ends June 30, 2008.
“While I am sorry to see Dean Jones’ tenure
as head of our business school end, I am
supportive of his decision.
This change affords
him the opportunity to
pursue other endeavors
while it allows us to re-tain
his many strengths,”
said Bernadette Gray-
Little, executive vice
chancellor and provost.
“I am very pleased
that the University will
continue to benefit from
Dean Jones’ experience and commitment.”
For the past five years, Jones “has worked
to enhance the reputation of our outstanding
business school,” Gray-Little said.
Jones’ decision does not signal his retirement
or departure from the school. “The school will
remain my ‘first among equals’ and I look forward
to remaining on the faculty and contributing
in fundraising, in the classroom and in new
initiatives to give the school even greater reach
and impact,” he said.
Milestones under Jones’ leadership include
enhancing student quality and Kenan-
Flagler’s reputation with corporate recruiters,
hiring 25 faculty members in the last two years,
raising alumni support to an all-time high, add-ing
13 endowed professorships and increasing
fellowship funding by 37 percent.
When Jones was named dean, he had recently
returned to the United States after 15 years
overseas and 30 years in business.
He had served as chief executive officer of
Suncorp Metway Ltd., one of Australia’s 25
largest companies, and managing director of
ANZ Banking Group N.Z. Ltd., one of New
Zealand’s top companies.
A search committee will be formed to
recommend a new dean, Gray-Little said.
jones
AVC for information security appointed
William Cameron, a senior information
technology specialist with extensive experi-ence
in administrative and technical aspects
of information security,
has been appointed
assistant vice chancellor
for information secu-rity.
He started work
Nov. 12.
Cameron has expe-rience
in vulnerability
management, threat
management, incident
management, security
awareness training,
policy development and computer forensic
investigations.
Before coming to Carolina, Cameron
served as an information security specialist
with the N.C. Office of Information
Technology Services. There, he managed
several information security procurement
initiatives that resulted in statewide contracts
for enterprise anti-virus software and mobile
data encryption products.
Cameron has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial
Engineering from N.C. State University and
a master’s degree in business administration
from UNC-Greensboro. He is a certified
Information Systems Security Professional,
Information Systems Auditor, ISC2 Infor-mation
Security Architecture Professional
and holds a SANS Global Information
Assurance Certification.
MICHAEL D. AITKEN
n Title: Chair, Department of Environ-mental
Sciences and Engineering.
n Effective date of appointment:
Sept. 1, 2006.
n Education: Ph.D., University of
Notre Dame.
n At Carolina
since: 1987.
n Classes taught
at the graduate level:
Environmental Pro-cess
Biotechnology.
n Research focus:
Biodegradation of
organic pollutants,
biological processes
for waste treatment.
n Major honors:
Board Certified Member, American Academy
of Environmental Engineers, President of the
Association of Environmental Engineering
and Science Professors.
CHANING J. DER
n Title: Sarah Graham Kenan Professor
of Pharmacology.
n Effective date of appointment:
July 1, 2006.
n Education: Ph.D., University of
California-Irvine.
n At Carolina since: 1992.
n Classes taught at the graduate level:
Cell Biology II, Introduction to Molecular
Pharmacology, Principles of Pharmacology
and Physiology.
n Classes taught at the undergraduate
level: Molecular Biology.
n Research focus: Molecular basis of
cancer and signal transduction.
n Clinical interest: Lung, colon, pancreatic,
breast, ovarian, skin cancers.
n Major publications: Capell, B.C.,
Erdos, M.R., Madigan, J.P., Fiordalisi, J.J.,
Varga, R., Conneely, K.N., Gordon, L.B.,
Der, C.M., Cox, A.D., and Collins, F.S.
(2005) Inhibiting farnesylation of progerin
prevents the characteristic nuclear blebbing
of Hutchinson-Guilford progeria syndrome.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102(36): 12879-84.
Mitin, N., Rossman,
K.L., and Der, C.J.
(2005) Signaling in-terplay
in Ras Super-family
function. Curr
Biol 15(14): R563-74.
n About the en-dowment:
The Sarah
Gr a ham Ke na n
Professorships were
established by the
Sarah Graham Kenan
Foundation Inc.
Kenan was born in 1876. She provided
the endowment that helped establish the
Southern Historical Collection in the
University’s library.
The Sarah Graham Kenan Professorships
were created in 1968 to benefit the law,
medical and business schools.
ANDREW F. OLSHAN
n Title: Chair, Department of Epide-miology.
n Effective date
of appointment:
Sept. 10, 2006.
n Education:
Ph.D., University of
Washington.
n At Carolina
since: 1991.
n Classes taught
at the graduate
level: Reproductive
and Perinatal Epide-miology,
Cancer Epidemiology.
n Research focus: Epidemiology of
cancer and birth defects.
JESICA SMITH
n Title: Albert and Gladys Hall Coates
Professor for Teaching Excellence.
n Effective date of appointment:
Sept. 1, 2006.
n Education: J.D., University of
Pennsylvania.
n At Carolina since: 2000.
n Research and clinical focus: Criminal
law, criminal procedure and criminal
evidence.
n Major publications: Crawford v.
Washington: Confrontation One Year Later
(2005 and 2007 supp.); NC Crimes (6th ed.)
(forthcoming Dec. 2007).
n About the endowment: The Albert
Coates Professorship and the Gladys Hall
Coates Professorship were established in
the Institute of Government by Chapel
Hill entrepreneur and philanthropist
Paul A. Johnston and his wife, Margaret
McGirt Johnston.
Gladys Hall Coates, a researcher and writer
of University history, is the wife of Albert
Coates, the Carolina law professor who was
the founder and first director of the Institute
of Government in 1931.
The couple used their private funds to
finance the fledgling
institute.
The building at
223 East Franklin
St. that first housed
the ins t i tut e i s
named for them.
Both received the
General Alumni
Association Dis-tinguished
Service
Medal. Albert re-ceived
the medal in 1979 and Gladys
received hers in 1992.
Herbert B. Peterson
Professor and chair in the department
of maternal and child health in the School
of Public Health and professor in the
department of obstetrics and gynecology at
the School of Medicine, Peterson has been
elected to membership in the Institute of
Medicine (IOM).
New members are selected from candidates
nominated for their professional achieve-ment
and commitment to service. Sixty-five
new members and four foreign associates
were chosen this year, bringing the IOM’s
total active membership to 1,538.
Peterson is known nationally and
internationally for his work in women’s
reproductive health, epidemiology, health
policy and evidence-based decision-making.
David A. Felton
Professor of prosthodontics in the School of
Dentistry, Felton was awarded the American
College of Prosthodontists Distinguished
Service Award on Nov. 2 at the college’s
annual session in Scottsdale, Ariz.
A past president of the college and
editor-in-chief of the Journal of Prosthodontics,
Felton was honored for “his long-term
See Distinctions, page 13
aitken der
olshan smith
aitken, der, olshan, smith
Appointments to endowed professorships, department chairs
cameron
November 14, 2007 11
Human Resources
Spend flexible spending account money this year
If you are enrolled in one or both of the
flexible spending accounts this year, you should
spend that money before the end of 2007.
Participants in the Health Care and the
Dependent Day Care flexible spending
accounts must incur eligible expenses by
Dec. 31, to receive reimbursement. Claims
can be submitted until March 31, 2008.
Eligible day-care expenses include:
n Payments to nursery schools, day-care
centers or individual day-care providers who
meet all state and local laws and regulations;
n Payments for before/after-school care for
kindergarten and higher grades; and
n Payments in lieu of regular day care for
day camps (not overnight camps).
You can use the health-care spending
account to reimburse eligible expenses for
yourself, your spouse and your children.
Eligible expenses include:
n Deductibles and copayments you have to pay
under your or your spouse’s medical coverage;
n Your coinsurance (the part of covered
expenses you have to pay) for any medical or
dental bills after you have met your deductible;
n Most over-the-counter drugs and medi-cines.
Many pharmacies and stores now mark
these eligible expenses on your receipt;
n Prescription drug copays;
n Dental and vision expenses, including
glasses, contacts and contact solutions and
n Infertility treatment.
These expenses must be related to medical
care and cannot be eligible for reimbursement
using your medical insurance.
Other expenses may be eligible as well. For
more information about both flexible spending
accounts, refer to www.ncflex.org, Benefits
Highlights. For a complete list of eligible
and ineligible expenses for both spending
accounts, log on to www.ncflex.org; refer to
Resources, Forms, then Claims Kit.
Winter blood
drive set for
Dec. 18
The winter Carolina Blood Drive will
be held Dec. 18 from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in
Woollen Gym. Plan now to give a gift from
the heart of Carolina during the holiday
season, when blood donations are critical
for our fellow North Carolinians.
Individuals may donate whole blood
as often as every 56 days (eight weeks), so
check your calendar to ensure that you are
able to join other University donors for this
important blood drive.
Refer to www.unc.edu/blood to make
an appointment online, or call 96-BLOOD
(962-5663, ext. 226), between 8 a.m. and
5 p.m. Monday through Friday through
Dec. 17. Appointments are encouraged, but
walk-ins will also be accepted. Donors are
given a hearty snack after they donate and will
receive a free American Red Cross t-shirt.
The American Red Cross is also offering
participants the option of collecting double
red cells from qualifying donors. Double
red blood cell donations allow the donor
to give two units of blood, which increases
the number of individuals receiving help.
Donors with blood types O and B are able to
give double red cells. This process requires
additional time and has minimum height and
weight restrictions. Refer to www.unc.edu/
blood for additional information.
Volunteers are vital to make this event a
success. Individuals who would like to vol-unteer
their time can go to www.unc.edu/
blood and click on the volunteer link for
details and shift options.
For more information, contact Employee
Services at 962-1483.
Eat smartly, move more
this holiday season
The holiday season is around the corner.
If you are looking for ways to eat smartly and
move more during the season, the “Maintain,
Don’t Gain! Holiday Challenge” is the
solution. This is a free six-week, online
challenge that encourages you to maintain
your weight during the holidays.
The challenge begins Nov. 19 and ends
Dec. 31. Sign up is easy — simply go to
www.MyEatSmartMoveMore.com and
click on the “Maintain, Don’t Gain! Holiday
Challenge” link to register.
The challenge is designed to help you
manage the triggers that cause you to gain
weight over the holidays. Each week, you will
receive a free newsletter containing tips on
various topics such as healthy Thanksgiving
meals, managing holiday stress, navigating
holiday parties and more.
Recipes for quick, easy, healthy dinners
to prepare on busy nights, as well as healthy
holiday goodies, will also be included. A
food journal, activity log, and weight log
are available for free download. You will be
encouraged to follow the tips and strategies
provided and to track your food intake,
activity level and weight.
Each week, two participants will be chosen
randomly to receive an Eat Smart, Move
More N.C. prize pack.
Star Heels kicks off
In October, Carolina entered
the eighth year of the successful
Star Heels Program, which
provides awards to individual
departments to recognize and
reward excellent employees.
Under this popular program,
departments are given the
flexibility to choose award
criteria and timing of awards.
Recipients receive an award
letter and a $25 gift certificate
to their choice of one of four
local vendors.
“Along with these, they
also receive much-deserved
acknowledgement from their department
and among their colleagues for the great
job they are doing each day,” said Shelly
Green, Star Heels program coordinator in
Human Resources.
TIAA-CREF continues to be the sole
sponsor of the program.
New office serves
EPA non-faculty
positions
The Office of Human Resources (OHR)
has a new EPA non-faculty human re-sources
unit in Suite 1300 of the Admin-istrative
Office Building, 104 Airport Dr.
On Nov. 1, all EPA (exempt from
the State Personnel Act) non-faculty
personnel responsibilities were trans-ferred
to OHR. Matthew Brody, assistant
vice chancellor for human resources,
oversees these activities and is assisted
by Bonnie Smith, who is temporarily
assuming the duties of EPA non-faculty
human resources officer.
To contact the new office, call 962-2897.
Adverse weather policy always in effect
The adverse weather policy is always in
effect. Any time you cannot attend work due
to a weather-related event, the policy applies.
This includes having to stay home to care
for a child who could not attend school due to
adverse weather.
Human Resources has detailed adverse
weather information available at hr.unc.edu/
hottopics/adverseweather. This includes
resources to determine the University’s
current adverse weather condition, a link to
the Department of Public Safety’s Web page
and access to the adverse weather leave policy.
The University uses three adverse weather
operating conditions:
n Condition Level I: “Normal” weather
conditions, so the University is open on a
normal schedule. Staff can still navigate the
campus and local areas safely.
n Condition Level II: “Severe” weather,
including heavy snow or ice and/or heavy
accumulations, so public transportation is lim-ited.
Sidewalks are in poor condition. Classes
are canceled, but University offices are open.
n Condition Level III: “Extreme” weather,
such as unusually large accumulations of snow,
ice or sleet. Law enforcement advises no one to
travel except in an emergency. The University
has been closed.
Non-emergency employees are responsible
for their regular duties during Conditions
I and II.
They must make up any time missed and
should make their own decisions about coming
to work based on personal safety. Only
emergency employees must report to work
during Condition III events.
Announcements indicating the closing of
state government offices due to adverse weather
do not apply to the University.
For details regarding the University’s current
condition, employees can call the University’s
adverse weather hotline at 843-1234 or visit
the UNC main home page, www.unc.edu,
for specific updates.
Avoid holiday weight gain this year!
N o v e m b e r 1 9 t h r o u g h D e c e m b e r 3 1
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Dan Re ed, who
launched the Renaissance
Computing Institute
(RENCI) in 2004, will
become director of
scalable computing and
multicore at Microsoft
Research effective
Dec. 3.
Reed came to Carolina
in 2003 from the Uni-versity
of Illinois, where he led the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications
from 2000 to 2003 and the computer science
department from 1996 to 2001. He currently
is Chancellor’s Eminent Professor and senior
adviser for strategy and innovation to
Chancellor James Moeser.
“We are grateful for all of Dan’s efforts to
successfully launch the Renaissance Computing
Institute and its strategic partnerships with
other universities and the state of North
Carolina,” Moeser said. “His service in national
leadership positions addressing important
science and technology issues has also brought
an invaluable perspective to our thinking about
the research enterprise at the University.”
Reed said the chance to influence the future
of computing on the largest scale at Microsoft
was irresistible, both as a researcher and as a
builder of large-scale systems.
“The transition to multicore — or multiple
processors per chip — and the emergence
of very large-scale data centers that deliver
Web-based services are fundamental changes
in computing with deep implications,” he said.
“This technological sea change will reshape
computing, research, the economy and our
lives for years to come.”
Alan Blatecky, deputy director of RENCI,
will serve as the institute’s interim direc-tor.
He was the first RENCI employee
recruited by Reed and had been executive
director of the San Diego Supercomputer
Center. Blatecky had previous N.C. experience.
RENCI, a venture of Carolina, Duke and
N.C. State universities and the state of North
Carolina, leverages its expertise and multidis-ciplinary
resources in computing, networking
and data technologies to stir innovation and
address previously intractable problems for the
state and beyond.
Reed leaves Carolina for Microsoft Research in December
reed
the principle of physically connecting the
north and sound areas of campus to foster
stronger ties between academic affairs
and health affairs, Lowman said.
The Carolina Physical Science Complex, at
the center of campus on what was once consid-ered
the boundary between health affairs and
academic affairs, is an example of how new
construction has fostered that connectedness.
Lowman also said department chairs
and school deans were finding more ways
to incorporate interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary
research into decisions about
tenure and promotion.
Adequate compensation
Even with all these factors in Carolina’s
favor, Lowman still worries.
He understands that professors, like
everyone who works for a living, have to pay
attention to their paychecks and that a positive
working environment is only half the battle in
the competition for the best.
Lowman credits the UNC Board of Gov-ernors
and University Board of Trustees for
recognizing this challenge and establishing a
goal to raise pay for tenured and tenured-track
faculty to the 80th percentile of their peers.
“We’ve got a tremendous building program
that has given us state-of-the-art facilities,
but we’ve still got to be able to offer more
competitive salaries and fringe benefits
because great facilities and collegiality can
only take us so far,” Lowman said.
“If somebody else offers you 50 percent
more money, it’s hard to turn that down. So
money clearly has to play a major role in our
success in attracting that best and brightest
cohort of faculty members for the next
generation. That is a key issue.”
A changing professorate
Another concern that Lowman touched on
in his report is the growing number of faculty
members who are not tenured or on the
tenure track.
From 1996-97 to 2006-07, total faculty at
Carolina increased by more than 30 percent —
from 2,506 to 3,272 — while the number
of tenured and tenure-track faculty actually
dropped by 4.3 percent — from 1,793 to 1,716.
This pattern, Lowman said, is the unintended
consequence of the University��s burgeoning
research enterprise. Most of Carolina’s fixed-term
faculty are research appointments and
are typically paid out of research grants or
other non-continuous funding sources. At the
same time, Carolina has a growing number
of clinical professors paid out of income
generated from patient care.
Lowman said the change has not had much
effect up to this point, but he sees embedded
in this structural shift in the academic work-force
a potential threat to academic freedom.
“You don’t want to be in the position of
having research faculty members reluctant
to take on controversial research subjects or
publish findings that may be controversial
because they fear for their jobs,” Lowman said.
A major rationale for having tenure is to
protect academic freedom so that professors
can speak out and write within their areas of
expertise secure in the knowledge their jobs are
protected, he said. “That is one reason tenure
has been such a cherished and important
norm within American higher education.”
Lowman also worries that the declining
number of tenure-track openings could deter
the best and brightest from coming to
Carolina for what they might perceive as
dead-end, fixed-term appointments.
“We want to make sure there is enough
of a perception among the people we hire
that there is a permeability in the boundaries
between a research faculty member and a
tenure-track faculty member that we can hire
the best and brightest across the board,” he said.
Going global
Another challenge will be competing for
the best foreign-born faculty members. Over-all,
foreign-born scientists and engineers have
more than doubled in the past 30 years and
the National Science Foundation expects this
trend to continue to address the shortage in
American-born Ph.D.s across all fields of
science and engineering.
“It is hard to be a global university if all of
your faculty members are American,” Low-man
said. “That doesn’t exactly send the right
message to potential students who want to
learn to live in a new global society.”
Since all major U.S. universities want to
become global universities, Carolina will face
formidable competition for these professors,
he said.
“We’re starting to see universities in other
countries start to compete successfully for
American-born faculty,” Lowman said. “So
this street goes in both directions.”
Enrollment growth
Overlaying all these factors is the anticipated
rise in student enrollment in the decade ahead.
“We pride ourselves here in a strong
undergraduate tradition of teaching, and
I personally very much subscribe to the
philosophy that the best scientists, scholars and
artists are oftentimes the best, most exciting
teachers because they are state-of-the-art
themselves,” Lowman said.
However, many large research universities
have had to hire a growing number of
part-time, temporary instructors when budgets
have not kept pace with enrollment growth,
Lowman said. So far, that has not been a
problem at Carolina.
“We keep class sizes smaller. We have
our first-year seminars that get our freshmen
directly in contact with leading professors,”
he said. “But maintaining that contact
between our faculty and our students at a time
of enrollment growth — and at a time when
we know a large percentage of our faculty is
going to retire and leave the workforce — is
going to be a tremendous challenge for us.”
On the other hand
Lowman is quick to throw in some caveats
about the scope of the challenge ahead. Maybe
the number of faculty who will be retiring will
not be as big as he and others now project.
After all, the baby-boom generation has been
anything but predictable.
Currently, about 90 percent of faculty
members have retired by the age of 70. But
that doesn’t mean the pattern will continue.
Take, for example, Nobel Prize-winning
Oliver Smithies, who is well into his 80s and
has said he has no intention of retiring because
he loves what he does.
Whatever happens, Lowman remains
reasonably optimistic about Carolina’s chances
to attract great faculty that will keep this a
great university.
“It is still going to be a lot of work,” Lowman
said. “There are going to be a lot of search
committees for people to serve on over the
next eight years to get it right. But frankly,
faculty hiring in my personal opinion is the
most important decision that a department
chair and a dean make. Our research and
teaching reputations rest squarely on the
shoulders of the faculty we hire.
“The faculty we hire may be with us 30
years. And if we hire the right people, we want
them to stay, we want them to prosper and we
want them to develop their careers and their
intellectual capabilities and bring glory to
the University as well as create that dynamite
environment to teach students.”
Retiring Faculty from page 3
Michael Reiter
Reiter, a Carolina alumnus and global pioneer
in the development of critical computer security
protocols for air traffic control, Internet connec-tivity,
stock markets and
other vital networks, also
came to Carolina this
summer.
As the Lawrence M.
Slifkin Distinguished
Professor of Computer
Science, he will develop a
new program in comput-er
security. A Morehead
scholar who graduated
first in the class of 1989,
Reiter earned a doctorate from Cornell.
He taught at Carnegie Mellon University and
was director of Secure Systems Research at Bell
Laboratories at Lucent Technologies. He is ed-itor-
in-chief of the journal ACM Transactions
on Information and Computer Security.
Stefan Litwin
Litwin, an internationally renowned pianist,
composer and expert on the music of 20th-century
composer Arnold Schoenberg, will join
the Carolina faculty in January 2008 as the George
Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Music.
He is a professor of contemporary music and
interpretation at the Hochschule fur Musik
Saar, one of the top colleges in Germany. He
previously served as a distinguished artist-in-residence
at Christ College at Cambridge
University and as a fellow at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Berlin.
Litwin performs regularly with renowned
conductors and orchestras. He holds a doctor-ate
in music from the State University of New
York at Stony Brook.
Simon Blackburn
Blackburn, formerly the Edna J. Koury
Professor of Philosophy at Carolina, currently
holds a professorship at Cambridge University.
Considered one of the most interesting and
influential philosophers alive today, he will
rejoin the University faculty in fall 2008. He will
be a professor in the philosophy department one
semester each year for five of the next six years.
Blackburn is a fellow of the British Academy
and is an expert on the philosophy of the mind,
including language, psychology, metaphysics,
metaethics and science.
He is the author of many publications,
including The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy,
Think, Being Good, Lust, Truth: A Guide for
the Perplexed and Plato’s Republic (2006).
reiter
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Scribe to advance digitization
at UNC Library
The first “Scribe” in the Southeast was due
to arrive at the UNC Library in November,
thanks to a recent agreement between the
library and the San Francisco-based
Internet Archive.
“Scribe” is a high-speed scanner and software
application developed by the Internet
Archive that will speed the conversion
of books to digital format and encourage
experimentation with the free delivery of
digitized material via the Internet.
Scribe will help UNC develop capacity for
high-speed digitization of library collections
and will catalyze collaborative experimentation.
Renaissance Computing Institute has signed
on as a partner with the library to explore the
delivery and use of digital texts for research
and education.
UNC will initially turn Scribe to the
digitization of large and heavily consulted
collections.Under review for the pilot phase
are approximately 22,000 Spanish-language
dramas from the 18th through the early-20th
centuries; 1,200 American and British travel
accounts published between 1782 and 1920;
a century of back issues of UNC’s yearbook,
“Yackety Yack;” and thousands of ephemeral
items that document the lives of North Caro-linians
since the middle of the 18th century.
A public rollout of the Scribe and a formal
ribbon cutting for UNC’s expanded digital
library are planned for early 2008.
Center at UNC-Charlotte to focus
on urbanization, regional growth
The Renaissance Computing Institute
(RENCI) will partner with UNC-Charlotte
to create a new RENCI engagement center
focused on forecasting urban growth and
its impacts.
It will be administered by UNC-Charlotte’s
Urban Institute and will be developed as a part-nership
among the Urban Institute, the Center
for Applied Geographic Information Science
and the Charlotte Visualization Center. The
three campus entities will collaborate on
interdisciplinary research that addresses trends
in land use and development in the Charlotte
area, and the effects of urbanization on natural
resources, traffic patterns, urban infrastructure,
quality of life and disaster response.
RENCI will develop models to forecast
future urban development, create and dissem-inate
interactive, visual simulations of data on
urbanization trends, and deploy visual decision
support tools that stakeholders will be able to
use to develop and assess sustainable growth
and economic development policies.
Aspiring entrepreneurs invited to
compete in Carolina Challenge
The fourth annual Carolina Challenge is
under way with a call to aspiring entrepreneurs
at UNC to enter the entrepreneurial business
plan competition.
The challenge is open to teams from any
discipline that includes at least one UNC
student or member of the faculty or staff.
It is a student-led project of the Carolina
Entrepreneurial Initiative designed to help
participants gain knowledge and skills needed
to launch sustainable enterprises. Teams
receive a wide range of training opportunities
during the academic year to improve their
business and presentation skills.
For more information on a Nov. 27 prep
session and application information, see caroli-nachallenge.
org or call Maura Feil (516-984-
7268) or e-mail mfeil@email.unc.edu.
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We have all heard nightmares about identity
theft. And we have all been warned never to
share personal information.
But most people have the common
misconception that personal information is
limited to a Social Security number or bank
account number. Today, such information as
birth date, phone number, address or driver’s
license information can be just as dangerous
if it gets in the wrong hands.
One way identity thieves obtain personal
information is by “phishing” for consumers’
personal identity data and financial account
credentials.
One strategy used is sending “spoofed”
e-mails to lead consumers to visit Web sites
designed to trick recipients into divulging
credit card numbers, account usernames,
passwords and Social Security numbers.
By creating sites with names similar to
legitimate banks, e-retailers and credit card
companies, phishers may convince recipients
to respond.
Responding to any e-mail from people or
organizations asking
for sensitive informa-tion
carries risks.
While victims of
phishing voluntarily give out personal
information, other victims of identity theft
have personal information stolen from their
computers.
The first line of defense against computer
intruders is never to share passwords with
anyone, change them immediately if you
think someone might have obtained them,
create strong and complex passwords, have
different passwords for different systems and
store passwords in a safe place.
For more information about protection
against phishing, refer to www.antiphish-ing.
org.
How passwords are stolen
How do intruders discover a password? An
intruder might point a password-guessing
tool (which incorporates a custom dictionary)
at a system to try to discover the passwords
on that system. These
tools automate guess-ing
and can attempt
thousands of possible
combinations of characters in a very short
period of time.
For example, the intruder might try “tarheel”
as a possible password. At Carolina, such a
simple password would never be allowed as an
Onyen password because it is so easy to guess.
A seven-character password might be guessed
within hours.
Onyen passwords follow guidelines that
make them strong and complex. They must
be at least eight characters long, contain at
least one letter and one digit and must share
fewer than six consecutive characters with the
previous Onyen password.
For more information about creating
a strong password, refer to help.unc.
edu/4873.
How many passwords to have
Now that you have created a strong password,
how many passwords should you have? If you
have a number of sites that need passwords,
such as bank accounts, Onyen or non-UNC
e-mail accounts, a best practice is to have
diverse passwords so that if an intruder obtains
one of them, the person will not have access to
all your sensitive information.
How to keep track of passwords
One solution for storing passwords is
Cryptainer, a computer program that creates an
encrypted storage location where you can safely
keep a spreadsheet or document that contains
all your passwords.
Cryptainer is free for up to 25 megabytes
of data. To learn more about this application
and how to use it to store passwords, refer to
help.unc.edu/5900. Other free or low-cost
solutions are also available.
So when it comes to passwords, remember:
Never share them with anyone, make them
complex, make them diverse and be sure to
store them safely.
If you have questions, call 962-HELP.
Passwords are the keys to protecting your online kingdom
WhatitsABOUT
Women’s soccer program receives $1 million endowment
A $1 million dollar gift from the
William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust
will help endow scholarships and the
operating budget of the University’s
women’s soccer program.
The endowment will be made in the
name of William R. Kenan Jr. in honor
of alumnus Braxton Schell, an attorney for
the William R. Kenan Jr. Funds.
A longtime fan and supporter of the
soccer program, Schell regularly attends
the team’s games and has traveled with
the team on overseas exhibition tours
as well.
The grant also honors a successful athletic
program that serves as a model of the best
that college sports can offer to its partici-pants,
fans and alumni, said Richard M.
Krasno, executive director of the trust.
“We hope that our gift will enable the
women’s soccer program to thrive and
continue to demonstrate that all college
athletic programs can be a source of pride
and excitement to the UNC-Chapel Hill
community.”
Chancellor James Moeser called Schell
Carolina women’s soccer’s most diehard
fan. “He has supported women’s soccer
here since the early days of what is now a
true dynasty.
“Brax is a great friend and active volun-teer
for the University, so it’s wonderfully
appropriate for the Kenan Trust to honor
him in this way,” Moeser said.
Carolina has won 19 of the past 26
national championships in women’s soccer
and boasts an all-time record of 643-31-
18 in 29 years as a varsity sport.
“We are overwhelmed and so appre-ciative
of the Kenan Charitable Trust for
this remarkable gift,” said Coach Anson
Dorrance.
“We are all incredibly humbled with
the size of the gift and honored with
the rationale.”
service and support of the goals and objectives of
the college and substantive contributions to the
specialty of prosthodontics.
Anna Maria Siega-Riz
Associate professor of epidemiology and
nutrition in the School of Public Health, Siega-Riz
received the March of Dimes Agnes Higgins
Award earlier this month at the group’s annual
meeting in Washington.
She also presented a lecture at the meeting,
“Maternal Obesity: The Number One
Problem Facing Prenatal Care Providers in the
New Millennium.”
Eleni Tzima
Assistant professor of cell and molecular
physiology in the School of Medicine, Tzima
has been named a 2007 Ellison Medical
Foundation New Scholar. The award provides
$200,000 over four years in support of research
on the role of blood flow in cardiovascular
disease, primarily among the elderly.
The Ellison Foundation New Scholars award
supports exceptional young faculty who are
nominated by U.S. medical institutions and
universities for their outstanding promise in
aging research.
Krishnamurthy Janakiraman
Research associate at the UNC Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center, Janakiraman
received an American Federation for Aging
Research (AFAR) and General Electric Health-care
Junior Investigator Award for Excellence
in Biomarker Research at the AFAR scientific
conference, “Seeking Biomarkers of Aging and
Diseases of Aging.”
School of Government’s
Adolescent Pregnancy Project
Publications Management magazine in
conjunction with the Missouri School of Journal-ism
has presented two Magnum Opus Awards to
the school for Best Public Service Series and an
Honorable Mention Award for Best All-Around
Government Publication for Pregnancy and
Parenting: A Legal Guide for Adolescents.
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the General Assembly and the executive branch.
It would be nice have someone who knows that
grits is food and not people.”
Other faculty speakers agreed with many of
the points Ferrell made.
Richard “Pete” Andrews, Thomas Willis
Lambeth Distinguished Professor of public
policy and past faculty chair, buttressed Ferrell’s
call for a chancellor who understood fully the
value of a liberal arts education.
The next chancellor, Andrews said, should
be someone who “really understands the way
in which humanities, the arts and social sciences
speak to the human experience and not become a
chancellor just of big science and big biomedical
science,” important though they are.
He said that the next chancellor should speak
for the core values of Carolina from an academic
perspective of those values, but that he or she
would not have to “come from within” to be
able to do that. Moeser demonstrated that when
he came here from Nebraska, Andrews said.
Moeser was a wonderful example of someone
who brought something new to Carolina, but at
the same time became an effective champion of
the core values of the University, he said.
A stronger advocate for staff
Alan Moran, a cabinetmaker in Facilities
Services, and David Brannigan, a Grounds
Services technician and vice chair of the Em-ployee
Forum, reflected on the qualities they saw
as present and lacking in the current chancellor.
Moeser did many great things, both men
said, praising the introduction of the Carolina
Covenant that made it possible for the best
students from poor backgrounds to gain entry
to Carolina and graduate debt-free.
But, they said, he did not do enough for staff.
Moran said he believed Moeser’s emphasis
on the importance of raising faculty pay did not
include a similar concern over staff pay.
Both men said that staff members felt they
were not listened to and that administrators were
going to do whatever they wanted regardless of
what staff members thought. Brannigan talked of
a gap between the administration and staff mem-bers
like himself who wear blue shirts to work.
“Most employees see South Building and the
administration as this remote body that sends
down edicts from upon high,” Brannigan said.
Emily Kass, director of the Ackland Art
Museum, said she viewed the arts as an equal
partner in the educational process and wanted
to see a chancellor who agreed with the notion
that an appreciation for the arts was an essential
part of a great education.
A big showing from students
Student Body President and committee
member Eve Carson spoke first to praise the
efforts of the Student Body Advisory Board for
its work in producing an 18-page document that
was “meant to serve as a preliminary statement
of values, standards and concerns from the
general student population.”
Students from every background were
surveyed in an attempt to represent the views of
the entire student body for the search committee
to weigh.
Many of the 25 students who spoke served
on the board and wrote various sections of
the document. The consistent theme among
the speakers and the report was a respect for
diversity. Difference should not be tolerated,
but embraced and celebrated as an essential
ingredient to a good education and a better
world, the students said.
First-year student Harrison Brooks con-tradicted
some faculty sentiment by saying he
would like to see the next chancellor come from
the Carolina community because that person
would already possess a built-in familiarity and
allegiance that could breed success.
Another student suggested that the next
chancellor be youthful — not in age, but in
outlook, with fresh ideas, energy and optimism
about the future.
Charissa Lloyd, chair of the College Repub-licans,
said students should be free of ideological
discrimination, especially in the classroom. “We
want the ability to defend our ideas, even if they
differ from our professors’ perspectives,” she said.
Paige Michael-Shetley, chair of the UNC
Students for Ron Paul, agreed that the next
chancellor should strive to make the University
an open marketplace of ideas — and politics.
That openness was not only consistent with the
University’s values and tradition, but was also
essential for the University to maintain its
national prominence, she said.
BOG member honored for service to higher education
crisis for the Carter administration.
Carter’s father was publisher of the Greenville
(Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times. A New Orleans
native and graduate of Princeton University’s
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, Carter served as a lieutenant
in the U.S. Marines Corps for two years. He
returned to Greenville and spent 17 years as a
reporter, editor and associate publisher of the
family-owned newspaper. In 1961, Carter won
the Society of Professional Journalists’ national
award for editorial writing. He was a Harvard
University Nieman Fellow from 1965-66.
In the 1960s, Carter became active in racial
and political reform in the South. He worked on
presidential campaigns for Lyndon Johnson in
1964 and Jimmy Carter in 1976 and joined the
Carter administration in 1977.
After leaving the state department in 1980,
Carter held a variety of news media positions,
including opinion editorial columnist for the
Wall Street Journal. His work garnered four
national Emmy awards and the Edward R.
Murrow Award for best foreign documentary.
Parking for commencement will be available
in the Manning, Bowles and Hinton James lots
and the Craige Parking Deck. A reception on
the concourse will follow the ceremony.
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involved in enhancing the University’s
research enterprise to meet Chancellor
James Moeser’s goal of a $1 billion per year
funding level.
“I’m sure we would probably prefer not to
set a dollar goal because that sends a message
that we only care about money and not the
quality of research and its impact. But it
provides something concrete,” said Tony
Waldrop, vice chancellor for research and
economic development.
Reaching that goal, though, was complicated
by reduced resources and greater competition
for available funding, panelists said.
The nature of business as usual has changed,
said Harvey Seim, chair of the Faculty
Research Committee. In marine sciences,
where he is associate professor and director,
Seim said National Science Foundation
(NSF) funding had fallen from 30 percent to
less than 10 percent.
“We’re on this wheel and running but we’re
never being terribly productive,” he said.
“Interdisciplinary research is where new money
seems to be. You need to figure out how to
make yourself look attractive, but this is a
different business than writing a straight NSF
grant. It means reaching across campus, to
other campuses or to private industry to find
additional resources.”
Peggy Bentley, associate dean for global
health, agreed that faculty should take
advantage of their strengths in collaborative
research. “That is the competitive edge we
need to pursue.”
The School of Public Health, for example,
has identified four areas of emphasis that play
on the school’s existing strengths, she said.
“It isn’t that other areas aren’t important, but
having these strategic areas has helped us
crystallize where to put our resources.”
Creating a more collaborative research focus
also would have an impact on promotion
and tenure considerations, Waldrop said.
“Currently, we don’t emphasize being a member
of a team,” he said.
In the humanities, unlike the sciences,
securing grants is not directly related to tenure,
said Jacquelyn Hall, Distinguished Professor
of history. “But in an indirect sense it
is just as important for faculty research
to be supported through sabbaticals and
fellowships,” she said.
In its report, the committee made several
recommendations for finding and responding
to funding opportunities including dramati-cally
increasing funding for the University
Research Council grants program. Other
suggestions included fostering interdis-ciplinary
research and enhancing faculty
incentives by evaluating compensation
packages and implementing a campus-wide
sabbatical program.
Other action
The council approved proposals to revise the
student appellate process and clarify elements
of reckless driving, driving while impaired and
sanctions of drug or alcohol suspension.
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and make an appropriate contribution to
the University’s overall goal of excellence,”
Moeser said. “Another consideration should
be where we fall in the competitive market-place
for tuition rates charged by our peers.”
He said the task force’s report provided
ample evidence to show that a campus-based
tuition increase of $1,250 for nonresident
undergraduates would be consistent with
those beliefs.
“This amount covers what we calculate to
be the inflationary increase required for these
students to fulfill their commitment to pay
for the full cost of their education,” Moeser
said. “That calculation factors in the cost of
the new funding available this year for faculty
salaries through state appropriations and last
year’s campus-based tuition increases.”
Similarly, Moeser told trustees he had
rejected options as high as $1,500 for non-resident
undergraduate tuition that the task
force had examined, because the additional
revenue it would generate (about $473,000 after
accounting for need-based financial
aid) would not be significant enough to
“justify the additional stress this higher
amount would place on our campus culture,
when our North Carolina undergraduates
will pay no increase.”
Moeser also explained why he had not
accepted the task force’s recommendation to
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The late Benjamin S. Ruffin of Winston-
Salem is the 2007 recipient of the University
Award, the highest honor given by the
UNC Board of Governors.
On Nov. 8, UNC President Erskine
Bowles and awards committee chair Brad
Adcock presented Ruffin’s family with the
award, which recognizes illustrious service
to higher education in North Carolina.
Ruffin, a highly respected civil rights
activist, businessman and civic leader who
served as the first African-American chair of
the Board of Governors, died unexpectedly
last December at the age of 64.
He was known as a tireless defender of
greater educational access and affordability,
as well as greater inclusion in state gov-ernment
and in the political process. The
posthumous award acknowledged his
inspirational leadership and lasting impact
on the UNC system and all of public higher
education in the state.
A Durham native, Ruffin held a master’s
degree in social work from Carolina and
seven honorary doctorates. A business
consultant, retired vice president for
corporate affairs for R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company and former special assistant
to Gov. James B. Hunt Jr., Ruffin was
the recipient of the NAACP’s Kelly M.
Alexander Humanitarian Award and the D.
H. McGannon Citation from the National
Urban League.
An emeritus member of the Board of
Governors at the time of his death, Ruffin
was first elected to the board in 1991.
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keep graduate student increases the same for
both residents and nonresidents.
“For graduate students, it is critical to
differentiate the rates for residents and non-residents,”
he said. “I endorse the lower end of
the task force’s suggested streamlined range —
$800 — for nonresidents because it covers the
cost of inflation. That is the measure we should
be focused on, even when considering that we
use tuition remission funds to adjust nonresi-dent
tuition to in-state levels for our graduate
students receiving University support. If the
rate were any lower than $800 we would lose
ground, and that would not be acceptable.”
As for resident graduate students, Moeser
said he disagreed with the task force’s thinking
in setting the range between $800 and $1,500.
“Even at the $800 figure, the disparity
between the percentage difference — in the
double digits — for nonresidents and residents
is just too much,” Moeser said. “It would be an
inconsistency that sends the wrong message to
our students and to the state.”
Moeser told trustees that he hoped they
would consider the fairness of his $400 proposed
increase for resident graduate students.
While differing with the task force over
some numbers, he endorsed the task force’s
proposals for how any new campus-based
tuition funds should be spent, starting with the
35 percent of revenues that has always been set
aside for need-based financial aid.
What is new in this year’s recommendations
is $600,000 for advising program support. The
remaining revenues should be devoted to more
faculty positions and faculty salaries, Moeser said.
Moeser said setting these tuition rates was a
delicate process that had a profound impact on
students and their families.
On the one hand, trustees must consider
if what parents are being asked to pay in
tuition is fair and affordable. On the other
hand, it must weigh the critical role that money
generated by tuition plays in helping to keep and
attract the best faculty, who are fundamental
for providing the great education from Carolina
that students and their parents expect.
“We all have an important responsibility to
protect the quality of the education we provide
to students and the value of the Carolina
diploma that they will receive upon graduating,”
Moeser said.
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Moeser requests
tuition increases for all
except N.C. undergrads
Chancellor James Moeser has recommended
for 2008-09 campus-based tuition increases of
$1,250 for nonresident undergraduates, $800
for nonresident graduate students and $400 for
resident graduate students.
The chancellor outlined his recommenda-tions
in a Nov. 12 letter to members of the
University Board of Trustees, who will vote
on the recommendations this week before
forwarding them to the UNC Board of
Governors for consideration.
Moeser offered his advice to trustees after
receiving a range of tuition options from the
Tuition and Fee Advisory Task Force earlier
this month. Moeser endorsed the task force’s
recommendation for a total student fee
increase of $57.19, or 3.5 percent.
Moeser announced in late October that he
would recommend no increase for in-state
undergraduates in light of generous state
support for Carolina and other UNC system
campuses, but he further detailed his reasons
for doing so in the Nov. 12 letter.
“Board of Governors policy sets a limit for
each campus tied to its state appropriations,”
Moeser wrote. Under this formula, the University’s
14.7 percent increase in state appropriations far
exceeded the 6 percent cap set by the BOG. The
result was a ceiling rate of 0 percent for resident
undergraduate tuition. In addition, resident
undergraduate tuition is capped at 6.5 percent
for any one year.
“I understand this policy and President
(Erskine) Bowles’ clear message about holding
the line on in-state undergraduate tuition
for next year. This position appropriately
reflects the fact that the North Carolina General
Assembly has made a huge commitment to
underwrite the cost of our resident students.
Such an approach to tuition recognizes that
extraordinary level of support.”
Since fall 2004, the University has received
an additional $32.9 million in state money for
faculty salary increases, compared to the $17.4
million generated from campus-based tuition
increases for the same purpose.
Moeser said the limitations imposed on the
tuition task force focused its deliberations on
the University’s priorities for preserving quality
and excellence with reasonable tuition proposals
for all nonresident students and resident
graduate students. The chancellor said he
respected their opinions and concerns.
“My own starting point with this issue is a
firm belief that our out-of-state students must
continue to pay the full costs of their education
Campus community lists attributes in next chancellor
Faculty members recognize that many
strong leaders in higher education have come
from backgrounds outside the academy, par-ticularly
politics and business. But they also
believe that such leaders are the exception rather
than the rule, and a gamble not worth taking
when choosing Carolina’s 10th chancellor.
That was one sentiment expressed by
faculty who spoke before the Chancellor
Search Committee at the Oct. 30 forum. In
this second of three forums the committee is
holding, faculty, staff and students expressed
their feelings about the kind of chancellor
they would like to see when Chancellor James
Moeser steps down next summer.
Joseph Ferrell, the first person to speak,
said: “We expect to find our new chancellor
to be someone who admires and respects his
faculty colleagues and works with them as a
collegial leader rather than a chief executive
officer and who values and respects the
ancient traditions of shared governance
and diversity and academic freedom that
have been hallmarks of this institution for
more than two centuries.” Ferrell is long-time
secretary of the faculty and professor
of public law and government.
A third forum, scheduled for Nov. 15
from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Gerrard Hall, will
provide the opportunity for anyone unable
to attend the previous forums to speak. For
updates about the search process and to view
video of the forums, refer to www.unc.edu/
chan/search/.
A respect for the liberal arts
Ferrell said the single most important
quality the executive committee of the Faculty
Council hoped to find was an understanding
of the value of a liberal arts education.
“We hope that you look for someone who
has a deep belief that the welfare and security
of the human race is grounded in the bedrock
of intellectual enlightenment,” he said.
Faculty also hoped that the search committee
would find a chancellor grounded in an
understanding of the special responsibilities
of a public university and would have extensive
experience in that arena.
“As the public voice and face of the
University of North Carolina (at Chapel Hill),
an institution that aspires to be the best public
university in the nation, the chancellor must be
able to reach out and translate for the people
of North Carolina what the University does
for them so they will continue to value and
support it,” he said.
While it would be an asset for the person to
understand the state’s history and the special
place that Carolina holds in the hearts and
minds of its people, Ferrell said, it would be
a necessity for the next chancellor to have
“enough of the common touch to enable
him or her to gain quickly the respect and
confidence of the people of North Carolina
and especially their elected representatives in
Journalist, policy expert Carter to speak at Dec. 16 commencement
Noted journalist and
policy expert Hodding
Carter III, a professor
of leadership and
public policy at Caro-lina,
will deliver the
December commence-ment
address.
Chancellor James
Moeser will preside at the
ceremony set for 2 p.m.
Dec. 16 in the Dean E. Smith Center. Moeser
selected Carter in close consultation with the
University’s speaker selection committee.
The committee, chaired by Executive Associate
Provost Steve Allred, is also made up of four
students, the faculty chair, the faculty secretary
and two distinguished faculty members.
“Hodding Carter’s distinguished career in
journalism and public affairs has given him a vast
array of experience to draw from in assessing
the dynamics of leadership, policymaking
and the watchdog role of the news media in
America today,” Moeser said. “I am confident
that his message to our new graduates and their
families will give us all much to think about.”
Carter said he planned to use his December
address to speak on the United States as a
constantly changing nation.
“America in the 21st century remains what
it has always been, a nation in the midst of
change,” Carter said. “Where that will take
us in the coming decades remains dependent
on the myths, aspirations, precepts and
principles we embrace in our public as well as our
private lives.”
An award-winning journalist, Carter joined
the College of Arts and Sciences faculty in 2006
after spending eight years as president and chief
executive officer of the John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation, a Miami-based organization
that promotes excellence in journalism. He also
served as assistant secretary of state for public
affairs and state department spokesman under
former President Jimmy Carter. In that role,
he served as the public face of the Iran hostage
Alan Moran (left), cabinetmaker in Facilities Services, and Joy Kasson, professor and chair of
American studies, address the search committee during the Oct. 30 forum.
See Chancellor, page 14
carter
See Commencement, page 14 See Tuition page 14
2 University Gazette
They had always been
dog people. So when
their 8-year-old said
she wanted a guinea
pig, they really
didn’t know what
to expect.
The man at
the pet store was
very reassuring.
Guinea pigs are
a lot like people,
he said. They enjoy
two things: sitting
around and eating.
Armed with that infor-mation,
Spunky the guinea
pig (pictured above) came home with them.
Just as the man from the store predicted,
Spunky spent most of his days lounging against
the corner of his cage or hunkered down
in his tube, with just the tip of his nose
peeking out from his plastic “cave.”
Only at mealtime did he dart out of
his tube and race to his bowl.
Of course, as Spunky enjoyed
this lifestyle, he blossomed, so to
speak. So much so that he got stuck
in his tube — which was replaced
with a super-sized version. All
was good again.
Spunky, who probably should
have been named Mellow, showed
that a pet does not have to bark,
lick your face in energetic greeting or
race around the yard on squirrel patrol.
A pet can simply be part of your life and
provide a non-human way to connect with, and
care for, another being.
This story illustrates that pets come in all
varieties. Most families have stories to tell of
the role their pet(s) play, or played, in their
lives — and how these members of their
extended families have enriched their lives.
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story and we will print selected anecdotes in our
Dec. 12 issue. Don’t hesitate to make us smile,
laugh out loud or say a collective “awwww.”
Everyone who submits a tale will be included
in a drawing for great prizes from Carolina Per-forming
Arts, the Carolina Inn and PlayMakers
Repertory Company. Winners’ names will be
published in the December issue as well.
E-mail your stories of no more than 150
words to gazette@unc.edu. Be sure to tell
us if you have a photo that might illustrate
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Faculty advocate for partnerships to benefit state
The welfare of North Carolina depends
largely on creating partnerships between UNC
system universities and the communities of
North Carolina.
That message was repeated throughout the
Nov. 2 UNC Tomorrow listening forum in
which faculty members from the Triangle’s
public universities and the N.C. School of
Science and Mathematics shared their views
on North Carolina’s pressing issues in the
next two decades. The forum was part of a series
of public, community and university discussions
sponsored by UNC General Administra-tion
to identify the state’s needs and help
implement solutions.
Speakers advocated forging sustainable
partnerships that use the knowledge generated
by universities to address the state’s pressing busi-ness,
social, educational and environmental issues.
“We have to get the knowledge off the
hill and into the community in the form of a
partnership,” said Gary Nelson, director of the
Center for Aging Research and Educational
Services in Carolina’s School of Social Work.
Specifically, speakers wanted the state’s public
universities to differentiate their missions as
they prepared to take on real-world problems.
Issues that topped the list of needs that faculty
members expressed included defragmenting
public mental health services, addressing the
primary health-care needs of people in rural and
underserved areas, preparing North Carolinians
for an entrepreneurial economy, enhancing
technology transfer and creating translational
research opportunities.
Make teaching desirable
One resounding theme was the need to make
teaching a desirable, lucrative career.
The impact of an effective teacher on the life
path of a child should not be underestimated,
said Suzanne Gulledge, clinical professor in
Carolina’s School of Education and a member
of the Faculty Council.
“But we have to make teaching attractive
and sustainable if we want to keep people in
the classroom,” she said. “The future of our
university system is contingent on the quality of
our K-12 education.”
As the state prepares for the estimated 34,000
public school teachers it will need by 2014, it is
crucial to make teaching a career of choice, not
the “next type of migrant labor,” said Jim Martin,
professor of chemistry and chair of the faculty
at N.C. State.
Speakers suggested expanding study abroad
and language-immersion programs, offering
mentoring opportunities and sabbaticals, and
generating an excitement of learning by keeping
scholars and researchers in the classroom.
Previous forums held across the state also
raised concerns about K-12 education, said
Thomas Ricketts, professor of health policy and
administration and social medicine and a member
of the UNC Tomorrow Scholars Council.
“There is a real sense of trust in our university
system as a place where the hard problems can be
solved,” he said. “The people of North Carolina
trust us to make the future better for us all.”
Health issues
The future of health care was a prominent issue.
George Sheldon, Distinguished Professor
of surgery and research professor of social
medicine, said universities have to forge a
connection with the state’s community colleges,
particularly in helping people with basic training
prepare for higher-level careers in health care.
“There has to be a seamless evolution through
related career paths.”
Lee McLean, associate dean and chair of
allied health sciences, emphasized that many of
the people universities train today are the com-munity
college teachers of tomorrow and this
“supply line of future faculty” is crucial.
Thomas Bacon, director of the N.C. Area
Health Education Centers Program, reinforced
the expanding need to put people and medical
training opportunities where they are needed
most across the state.
Jim Porto, clinical assistant professor in Car-olina’s
School of Public Health, raised an issue
that UNC President Erskine Bowles said had
not been mentioned in previous forums: disas-ter
management.
“North Carolina will undoubtedly have
more frequent, intense disasters in the fu-ture,
and we need to be prepared with a cadre
of people trained in disaster management,”
said Porto, director of the disaster manage-ment
program. “No matter what vocation we
choose, our workers have to be prepared to
deal with disasters.”
Forum summaries
Bowles called the long-range planning of the
Scholars Council “the most important thing we
can do right now” because of its emphasis on
strategic thinking.
“We tend to think year by year because that’s
the way we are funded by the legislature,” he said.
For information about UNC Tomorrow,
including a summary of the group’s findings to
date, refer to www.nctomorrow.org.
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Jean Coble’s name was inadver-tently
left off the 2007 University
Campaign Honor Roll which was
published in the Oct. 17 issue of
the Gazette.
For the Record
November 14, 2007 3
First Faculty Engaged Scholars selected
From developing a journalism “bucket
brigade” to enhancing life and learning via
computer technology for people who have
disabilities, eight Carolina faculty will apply
their teaching and research to practical
problems in new ways.
These faculty members have been selected
as Carolina’s first class of Faculty Engaged
Scholars. In this two-year program, the
scholars will apply their skills to make a
difference in a particular community as
they connect their work with the needs of
the community.
The Faculty Engaged Scholars, selected
through a campuswide competitive process,
are addressing a variety of social, cultural,
educational and communication problems:
n Gary Bishop, professor, computer sci-ence
department — using software and tech-nology
to enhance education and computer
access for people with disabilities;
n Mimi Chapman, associate professor,
School of Social Work — enhancing the
educational climate to improve services for
Latino youth and their families in Chatham
County schools;
n Giselle Corbie-Smith, associate professor
of social medicine, medicine and epidemiology,
Schools of Medicine and Public Health —
employing photography to articulate
community-based health concerns and the
resulting dialogue;
n Dorothy Holland, professor of anthro-pology
— assessing health and economic
development benefits of rebuilding local
food systems in northeastern, southeastern
and Appalachian North Carolina;
n Jock Lauterer, lecturer, School of Journal-ism
and Mass Communication — developing
a journalism student “bucket brigade” to create
content for the Spring Hope Enterprise
while its editor-publisher recovers from
double hip replacement surgery;
n Mai Nguyen, assistant professor of
city and regional planning — revitalizing
a predominantly low-income African-
American neighborhood in Durham;
n Paul Smokowski, associate professor,
School of Social Work — creating an exhibit
on acculturation and adjustment in Latino
immigrant families, to be displayed within
communities and online; and
n Michael Waltman, associate professor,
communication studies department —
promoting tolerance and respect for social
differences via a Web site focusing on
education and communication.
Each scholar will receive a financial
stipend of up to $7,500 per year for each of
the two years.
“As the nation’s first state university,
Carolina has a strong tradition of serving the
people of North Carolina and the nation,”
said Mike Smith, vice chancellor for
public service and engagement and dean of
the School of Government.
“The Faculty Engaged Scholars program
will support faculty members who want
to join their many colleagues who already
are collaborating with communities
to apply their scholarly work to the
state’s challenges.”
The program is a new initiative of
Carolina Center for Public Service and the
Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public Service
and Engagement to advance faculty involve-ment
in the scholarship of engagement.
Ronald Strauss will serve as faculty director
and Lucille Webb as community director.
“This program aims to recognize and
reward these faculty, create and sustain
a community of engaged scholars from
diverse perspectives, and to continue to build
Carolina as an institution committed to
strong university-community relationships,”
said Lynn Blanchard, director of the
Carolina Center for Public Service.
New faculty come
to Carolina, thanks
to special fund
Matthew Howard
came to Carolina in part
because of the attractive
environment — both
the temperate climate
and the engaging people.
Even more compelling
was the opportunity to do
work that could have an
impact on state, national
and international policy.
“I was very attracted to the quality faculty and
administration in the School of Social Work,
considered one of the top programs in the
country. It is such an exciting and productive
environment in which to do work that can affect
policy on a broad scale,” said Howard, Frank A.
Daniels Distinguished Professor for Human
Services Policy Information in the school.
Howard, whose extensive research interests
include the physical and mental health aspects
of drug abuse, came to Carolina last spring from
the University of Michigan. He was recruited
through a special $5 million fund initiated by
UNC President Erskine Bowles and made
possible by the N.C. General Assembly. With
the fund, designed to recruit and retain faculty
members across the UNC system, Carolina
used $1 million to successfully recruit nine
faculty members and retain six others.
Currently, Howard is studying inhalant abuse
among adolescents, particularly those using glue
and gasoline, through a federally funded grant
from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
This is a prevalent, although hidden, form of
substance abuse among adolescents, he said.
This research, and other studies Howard is
undertaking on the mental health and substance
abuse behavior in incarcerated youth and adults,
could help determine possible methods for
substance abuse treatment and care for
antisocial children and adults.
Howard holds a Ph.D. and M.S.W. from
the University of Washington–Seattle, and a
master’s of science degree in psychology from
Western Washington University.
The following new faculty members were
among those recruited through the special fund.
Nancy Allbritton
Allbritton, considered one of the most
innovative mid-career bioanalytical chemists in
cellular cancer research, came to Carolina this
summer from the University of California–
Irvine. She works on the cutting edges of
biotechnology and
biochemical engineering
to understand cancer
through the signals in
individual cells.
She has doctorate
degrees in physics,
medical engineering and
medicine from MIT
and Johns Hopkins. At
Carolina, she is the Paul
Debreczeny Distin-guished
Professor of Chemistry, working with
the Institute for Advanced Materials and the
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Replacing retiring faculty gives challenges, opportunities
When James Moeser steps down as
chancellor next year, he will leave a record
of accomplishment — from the successful
completion of the Carolina First Campaign
to the launch of the Carolina Covenant to his
stewardship over an unprecedented level of
campus construction.
But, as he admitted in his 2006 State of
the University speech, Moeser will also leave
one “big, hairy audacious goal”: the challenge
of generating $1 billion in research funding
by 2015.
That looming challenge has Robert
Lowman worried. But he is also optimistic.
And he has good reason to be both.
Lowman, associate vice chancellor for
research, documented the cause of his worry
in a white paper, “Meeting the Challenge
of a Changing Workforce,” detailing how
Carolina will be faced with replacing an
unprecedented number of aging faculty
members over the next decade.
He is worried because every top research
university in the country will be faced with
exactly the same problem and will aggressively
recruit many of the same top-level candidates
to replace their aging stars that Carolina will.
“We want the very best, most able people
we can recruit,” Lowman said. “That is the
key to being a successful research university,
and ideally, we’d like to continue to get
better and better and better, and that is why the
hiring decisions we make in the next 10 years
are going to be so critical.
“Those hiring decisions will either put
UNC-Chapel Hill on a course to sustain or
enhance its reputation as a research university
or to level off or even decline if we are not
successful at hiring the best and brightest of
this next generation.”
In fiscal 2006-07, 41 percent of Carolina’s
tenured and tenure-track faculty were
age 55 or older, a jump from 29 percent
only 10 years before. Based on current
numbers, at least 500 tenured faculty members
can be expected to retire in the next 10 years.
Lowman wrote the paper for Tony
Waldrop, vice chancellor for research and eco-nomic
development, not knowing that Moeser
would draw from it for his annual speech.
Factors in our favor
He is optimistic because Carolina has
many advantages — starting with a long-time
national reputation for collegiality and
collaboration and ending with state-of-the-
art research facilities built over the past
decade as a result of the 2000 statewide higher
education bond referendum. The bond,
coupled with aggressive private fundraising
throughout the University, will have
spurred nearly $2 billion in construction
projects between 2001 and 2009.
“I have talked to a lot of people at colleges
and universities around the country, and
I don’t know if there is something in the
water here or what, but this is a place that is
perceived to be a very special place by a lot of
people,” Lowman said.
“When faculty arrive here, and I talk to
them after they have been here a relatively
short period of time, I hear them talking
about the collaborative environment here,
the collegiality that they feel among their
faculty colleagues, the ease with which they
have been able to establish new contacts and
potential collaborators for their research.”
Lowman credited Carolina’s deans of the
medical school for their contributions. “We
have been blessed with visionary leaders in
our School of Medicine who understood the
importance, from a scientific standpoint, of
being an integral part of the University with
everything that that entails.”
The University’s centers and institutions
including the Lineberger Comprehensive
Cancer Center, the Cecil G. Sheps Center
for Health Services Research and the
Carolina Population Center also rely on
collaborative endeavors.
“These centers exist to foster multi-disciplinary
collaboration and they have
been phenomenally successful,” Lowman
said. “They work on the basis of an interest
in a problem rather than what disciplinary
background you happen to come from.”
Lowman said the Carolina campus itself
was another major reason collaboration was
such a part of the culture. “Our health affairs
campus and our academic affairs campus are
one. We’re contiguous. We’re all right here.”
That may not seem like much of an
advantage, Lowman said, until you go else-where
where the medical schools are separated
from the rest of campus, not by feet, but
miles. An extreme example is Cornell, where
the university is in Ithaca and the medical
school is in Manhattan.
“Having that easy availability for meetings
and conferences and being able to get together
and go eyeball to eyeball in conversations is a
tremendous advantage, and so is being able to
hire graduate students who can easily go back
and forth from one lab to the other.”
That proximity may have once been
an historical accident, but construction
over the past decade has been guided by
a new campus master plan predicated on
See Retiring Faculty, page 12
howard
allbritton
See Recruitment, page 12
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Flu case confirmed in North Carolina
Slots still open for flu shots at UNC
The state’s first case of flu this season —
Type A — has been confirmed by state
officials. Of the two types of influenza
that commonly infect humans, Type A is
generally more serious than Type B, N.C.
Epidemiologist Jeff Engel said.
The good news is that this year’s vaccine
is targeted at this particular type of
flu, he said. Type A has accounted for
a large percentage of flu cases in the
southern hemisphere during flu season.
The other good news is that there is
plenty of flu vaccine to go around.
In partnership with the State Health
Plan, flu shots are being offered for Carolina
employees only through Dec. 5.
Shots are free to employees covered
under the State Health Plan, or one of the
state’s preferred provider organization
(PPO) plans. Non-members will pay $25
by cash or check at the time of vaccina-tion
and obtain reimbursement from their
insurance company.
At the time of the appointment, be
prepared to present the State Health Plan/
PPO card along with a photo ID. An
e-mail reminder will be sent two days prior
to appointments.
Refer to page 16 to see a list of the times
and locations for the clinics. Register online
at ehs.unc.edu. For more information,
call 962-5507.
Carolina’s no-smoking policy
reduces secondhand smoke risk
There is no known safe level of exposure to
secondhand smoke.
Adults who are exposed to secondhand
smoke experience immediate adverse effects on
their cardiovascular systems, which can lead to
coronary heart disease.
These are among the conclusions of the U.S.
Surgeon General’s 2006 report, The Health
Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to
Tobacco Smoke.
The report concludes that even short-term
exposure to tobacco smoke is hazardous, said
Adam Goldstein, professor of family medicine
and director of the School of Medicine’s
Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation Program.
“In the past, we thought there had to be
cumulative, long-term exposure to tobacco
smoke to be harmful, but that isn’t what the sur-geon
general’s report shows,” he said. “The more
we’re exposed to secondhand smoke, the worse
it is, so there is no safe threshold. That’s why the
new policy at UNC is so beneficial; it removes
that risk of exposure to secondhand smoke.”
Beginning Jan. 1, 2008, smoking will not be
allowed within 100 feet of all facilities controlled
by the University, both on and off campus. That
includes any facility in which the University
leases the entire space. The smoking ban also
applies to state-owned vehicles.
In addition, there will be no designated
University smoking areas. The practical effect
of the policy is that Carolina will be smoke-free,
Chancellor James Moeser said when he
announced the new policy.
“It isn’t simply a choice of whether to smoke
or not smoke, but a choice not to be exposed
to secondhand smoke at all. Essentially, if
you can smell smoke whatsoever, you have
raised your risk for cancer and heart disease,”
Goldstein said. “This policy is a big step for our
university, and it shows real leadership for the
entire nation.”
While life-threatening illnesses such as heart
disease and lung cancer are associated with
cumulative risk, that risk goes down immedi-ately
when exposure to secondhand smoke is
eliminated, he said.
For someone with a smoke-sensitive condition
such as asthma, obstructive pulmonary disease,
chronic sinus problems or a heart condition,
exposure to secondhand smoke can literally
be deadly, he said. “It is as much a disability to
someone with such a condition as climbing a set
of stairs without assistance is to someone who
is paralyzed.”
A changing environment
When people smoke in inside environments,
they clearly expose non-smokers to the harmful
effects of smoking, which has led to bans across
the country. Now society is aware that all
exposure, including that in outdoor environ-ments,
is harmful, Goldstein said. Even the
tobacco industry has research that shows the
health hazards, he explained.
Further, a primary target of tobacco
advertising is the college-aged population,
the group that has the highest smoking rate of
any age group in North Carolina, he said.
“We might not be able to compete with the
money spent enticing college students to use
tobacco, but we can establish an environment
supporting the norm that our campus is a
healthy place for people to be — not only for
our students, but for our faculty, staff, visitors
and patients as well,” Goldstein said.
In July, the University’s medical facilities
went smoke-free when UNC Health Care,
the School of Medicine and Campus Health
Services banned smoking anywhere on the
grounds and parking areas surrounding
the buildings.
Already, the effect is noticeable, Goldstein said.
In a survey of UNC Hospitals employees,
25 percent of respondents who were smokers
said they quit smoking leading up to the ban. An
increase in smoking cessation is not unusual, he
said, since three-quarters of smokers typically
indicate a desire to quit smoking and providing
a no-smoking environment encourages people
to enroll in smoking cessation programs.
The University is providing a variety of
resources to help students, faculty and staff who
would like to quit smoking. Information about
smoking cessation assistance for faculty and staff
is available on the Department of Environment,
Health and Safety Web site, ehs.unc.edu. The
School of Medicine’s Nicotine Dependence
Program site, www.ndp.unc.edu, also includes
resources for employees and patients.
The sites include a list of frequently asked
questions, information about making clinic
appointments and additional help resources
inside and outside the University.
Employees can receive
help with E-Pay transition
In early 2008, Payroll Services will
discontinue distribution of paper paychecks
and all employees will be paid through direct
deposit. In April, the paper pay stubs will be
discontinued and employees will access their
pay information via the Web.
The last paycheck or pay stub in October
included information about this change.
To help employees make the transition,
the Finance Division is providing training
about enrolling in direct deposit and accessing
electronic pay stubs. The sessions also will
include information about creating Onyen
accounts (the campus sign-on name provided
to Carolina faculty, staff and students) and
managing passwords, both of which employees
will need to access their electronic pay stubs.
Separate training sessions on checking account
maintenance are also available.
Training sessions are scheduled in the
following locations, which are accessible by
Chapel Hill Transit:
n Nov. 20 and 28, and Dec. 12 — Porthole
Building, 100 Porthole Alley (behind the
Carolina Coffee Shop off Franklin Street); and
n Dec. 18 — Health Sciences Library,
Room 328 (335 S. Columbia Street across
from the School of Public Health).
Information on Onyen account manage-ment
and the E-Pay process will be offered at
9:35 a.m., 11:35 a.m., 1:35 p.m. and 3:35 p.m.
Checking account maintenance sessions
will be offered on the same dates at 8:30 a.m.,
10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Employees also can receive information
without attending a training session.
Representatives from local banks and credit
unions will be outside the training rooms to
answer questions or help employees set up
a direct deposit account. Information about
University and community financial resources
will also be available.
For more information about E-Pay, refer to
www.unc.edu/finance/payroll/epay/index.
htm or contact Stephanie Kidd at slkidd@
email.unc.edu or 843-0383.
Registration is not required for any of the
training sessions. For more information about
the training, contact financetrainer@unc.edu
or call 843-3069.
aging research retreat
Margaret Dardess, associate vice chancellor for strategic alliances,
presents opening remarks before a campus retreat on aging Oct. 29.
More than 115 leading researchers in aging at UNC gathered to
discuss the depth, breadth, interdisciplinary linkages and future
direction of the University’s aging research. The retreat was organized
by the Institute on Aging in collaboration with the Center for Aging
and Health at the request of Tony Waldrop, vice chancellor for
research and economic development.
November 14, 2007 5
News Briefs
SEC: going for the goal
There are nearly 1,000 charities from which
Carolina employees can choose to designate
their donations to this year’s State Employees
Combined Campaign (SECC). The monies
collected support the elderly who need a hot
meal, cancer research, the homeless, the N.C.
Children’s Hospital and many other charities
that provide assistance to those in need.
Since the campaign began on Oct. 1,
$363,073.41 has been pledged as of Nov. 9
toward the $850,000 goal. Organizers agree that
while the campus campaign is on track, there is
still a way to go to meet the goal before the cam-paign
ends.
Information Technology Services has cooked
up a fiery venture to raise money for the SECC.
Employees are holding a chili cook-off at
11:30 a.m. on Nov. 15 in the courtyard of the 440
Building on West Franklin Street. For a suggested
minimum donation of $4, they will provide
homemade chili, cornbread and desserts. After-ward
guests can vote for their favorite chili with
dollars, and all money raised will go to the SECC.
There is still time to turn in pledge forms
before the end of the campaign, and units across
campus are offering incentives in the form of
weekly raffles. For more information about the
SECC, or to learn who your team captains or
division leaders are, call Devan Donaldson or
Jeffrey Tibbs at 962-8366 or visit the Web site:
www.unc.edu/secc.
Nov. 15 telethon to benefit N.C.
Children’s Hospital
For the sixth year, North Carolina Children’s
Hospital will reach out to more than 1.5 million
people across the state on Nov. 15 in a live
radio and television fundraiser. That day, 17
radio stations owned by Raleigh-based Curtis
Media Group will broadcast the N.C.
Children’s Promise Radiothon/Telethon live
from the lobby of the children’s hospital. Time
Warner Cable’s News 14 Carolina will provide
extensive television coverage.
The radiothon/telethon will begin at 5 a.m.
and continue until 11:30 p.m. Listeners and
viewers are invited to phone in their contribu-tions
throughout the day at 1-866-9-NC-KIDS
(1-866-962-5437) or donate online through
the N.C. Children’s Promise Web site (www.
ncchildrenspromise.org).
International Education Week
features drumming, story telling
Myriad activities have been scheduled
across campus during the celebration of
International Education Week.
On Nov. 15, faculty, staff and students can
take advantage of the third annual Get-a-Pass-port
Drive to apply for or renew a passport —
and have passport photos taken at the same time
for $10. Visit global.unc.edu for details about
the event and to learn about required documen-tation
and methods of payment. The event will
be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Room 4003 of
the FedEx Global Education Center.
Also on Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. the center’s auditorium
will fill with a free Japanese drumming
performance by Triangle Taiko. The ensemble
combines music and movements drawn
from the martial arts to produce high-energy
drumming. In the past Taiko drums were used
THE SYMBOL OF ALTRUISM
in villages as a way to signal residents of coming
storms, a new harvest or a battle command.
On Nov. 16, Chan E. Park, associate professor
of Korean Language, Literature and Performance
Studies at Ohio State University, will take
part in “P’ansori: Traditional Korean Music
and Storytelling,” to be held at 2 p.m. at 103
Graham Memorial Hall in the Johnston Center
for Undergraduate Excellence.
In her lecture Park will examine the social,
aesthetic and performative existence of
traditional music in contemporary Korea,
giving special attention to the p’ansori story-singing
tradition. The performance, free
and open to the public, is sponsored by the
Korea Foundation, UNC-Global Initiatives,
Carolina Asia Center, the departments of
Asian studies and music and the Association
of Asian Studies.
Refer to the calendar on page 16 or the Web
site (www.global.unc.edu) for information
about other events.
‘The Little Prince’
lands at PlayMakers
Cherished by adults and children alike,
Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s classic “The
Little Prince” is filled with all of the whimsy,
exuberance and innocence of childhood. When
a disenchanted Aviator crashes his plane in the
Sahara, he is surprised to meet an ethereal visitor
from a faraway star. Through the startling
insights shared by this “Little Prince,” the Aviator
is reminded of what is truly important in life.
The play opens Nov. 28 and runs through
Dec. 16. Because of the play’s appeal to children,
the special family holiday production begins at
7 p.m. to make it more accessible for children.
For show times and more information, call
962-PLAY (7529) or refer to www.playmak-ersrep.
org. Tickets are $10 to $40, depending
on day of the week.
Work from Duke migrant project
to be previewed Nov. 29
On Nov. 29, Earl Dotter and Tennessee
Watson, photographer and audio producer
respectively, will present new work from a
project in Maine where an estimated 10,000 to
15,000 migrant farm workers are employed in
harvesting crops by hand. It will be held at
7 p.m. in Hyde Hall.
The project is supported by the Center for
Documentary Studies at Duke University.
For more information, see cds.aas.duke.edu/
events/engagingdocumentary.html.
Winter Stories program
features storytelling, music
Friends of the Library will sponsor “Holiday
Spirit,” the 15th annual Winter Stories program
for children of all ages on Dec. 6. Brian Sturm,
associate professor in the School of Information
and Library Science, will return with professional
story telling to continue this popular tradition of
words and music.
“Winter Stories” will begin with a reception
in the lobby of Wilson Library at 5 p.m. The
program will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Pleasants
Family Assembly Room.
The program is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Liza Terll
(962-4207 or liza_terll@unc.edu).
Humanities program takes
a look at xenophobia
As part of its Adventures in Ideas seminars,
the Program in the Humanities and Human
Values has invited four scholars to analyze
xenophobia — the fear of strangers in our midst
whose ethnic or cultural identities and practices
bring out the worst in us.
The seminar will begin at 4:30 p.m. on
Dec. 7 and wrap up Dec. 8 at 1 p.m. Tuition
is $120. Call 962-1544 to register, or for more
information and to register online, see www.
unc.edu/depts/human.
Apply by Dec. 12 for
entrepreneurship program
Applications are being accepted through
Dec. 12 for the new Graduate Certificate
Program in Entrepreneurship, both the
introductory course alone or the full nine-credit-hour
sequence.
The program begins in January 2008 for
graduate and post-doctoral students, and full-time
faculty and staff who wish to complement
their studies with an exploration of how
entrepreneurship is changing their fields
and how to conceive, plan and execute new
commercial and nonprofit ventures.
The certificate is offered in three tracks: artistic,
life sciences and public health entrepreneurship.
Visit www.unc.edu/cei/grad for details and
to apply.
This is a new program of the Carolina
Entrepreneurial Initiative, co-sponsored by
The Graduate School and Kenan Institute of
Private Enterprise.
EARTH to benefit UNC Eating
Disorders Program
Members of the public are invited to attend
EARTH, a unique culinary experience in
Belmont, on Nov. 17 at 6:30 p.m.
The event is a fundraiser for the University’s
Eating Disorders Program and aims to raise
global awareness of eating disorders. It will
feature tasting stations from 12 renowned
chefs. The event will feature two musical per-formances,
a silent auction and a live auction.
See News Briefs, page 13
A metal pelican sculpture now presides over the rooftop garden
of the Carrington Hall addition, the sustainable landscape that
captures 70 percent of rainwater that falls on the building. Fabricated
by Carrboro artist Mike Roig, the pelican was commissioned by the
Class of 1967 in memory of Cheryl “Sparkie” Alexander. Not only
was the pelican Alexander’s favorite animal, but it also represents
altruism, a key component of the nursing profession.
contributed
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‘Doing the right thing,’ every day, earns Bowers recognition
Some people do great things because of the
attention they might get.
Other people do great things because of
some inner compass they feel obliged to follow
that not only tells right from wrong, but
compels them to do what they know is right.
You don’t have to know Terry Bowers long
to know into which category he belongs.
“I thought that was over and done with,”
Bowers said from a cell phone number that
someone in his department had provided for
Bowers’ interview about winning a 2007 C.
Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award
last spring.
“I don’t know what you want me to say,”
Bowers said.
“Well,” the impatient voice on the other
end of the line said, “I just want to ask a few
questions.���
“What for?” Bowers demanded.
“So I can tell people about some of the
unique qualities you possess that made you
stand out as an extraordinary employee.”
That appeal fell flat.
“God makes us all the same,” Bowers said.
“I’m just a person. We are all blessed to be at
this great institution. It’s a privilege.”
Then Bowers continued arguing that no
story should be written about him at all. “I’ll
be retiring at the end of the year, anyway,” he
said, as if that would somehow cancel any-one’s
interest in him.
“I respect your desire to be left alone,” the
voice on the other end ventured. “But if you
refuse to let me write your story, you will be
keeping me from doing my job.”
With that, there was a long silence, as if
Bowers’ internal compass was twirling in an
unexpected direction. Although he didn’t
want a big story written about him, neither
would it be right for him to keep another man
from doing his job.
“How much time do you need?”
‘Great pride in his work’
He is an electronics technician by trade
working in Housing Support.
In Bowers’ mind, that job and the way he
performs it make him no different or better
than anybody else, but that claim would draw
an argument from many of the men who have
worked with him over the years.
Among them is Marcus Bullett, who in
the nominating letter, wrote: “Terry Bowers
is one of the most valuable employees that
the University of North Carolina could
ever ask for.”
In the four years he had known Bowers,
Bullett continued, he had yet to meet another
employee who cared about the students, the
University or his job more.
“He has always stepped up to any challenge
without complaining,” Bullett said, and he is
always the first to step up whenever there is
an emergency.
During Hurricane Isabel, for instance,
Bowers and his wife, Dianne (a patient
accounts manager for UNC Hospitals),
stayed on campus to be available to respond to
whatever need might arise.
“His love for helping people is another
quality that is appreciated,” Bullett added.
Larry Hicks, director of housing and
residential education, described how “Terry’s
positive attitude and willingness to take on
additional responsibilities” set him apart. In
housing construction, the challenge is to ensure
that the facilities are ready when students arrive.
“I never have to worry about the electrical
part of the project,” Hicks said. “It will be
done on time, and done right. Terry is the
consummate professional that takes personal
pride in his work and that of his team.”
Hicks said Bowers was trained as an
electrician and was largely self-taught as an
electronics technician. In that role, Hicks
added, Bowers was a driving force in the
installation of a networked electronic access
control system that spans 38 residence halls and
nine family apartment buildings across campus.
The highly successful project has enhanced the
security for more than 8,500 students.
In the 13 years Hicks worked as housing
support superintendent, Bowers was one of
the handful of employees Hicks said he could
count on to respond to any emergency, from
manning a chain saw after Hurricane Fran
to using a snow shovel to clear steps and
sidewalks around residence halls.
“His work ethic is unsurpassed and he stays
with the problem until he is
sure he is no longer needed,”
Hicks wrote. “I realize there
are many unsung employees
at UNC who perform for no
other reason than to do their
best, but I don’t think you could
find one any more dedicated to
this school or its students than
Terry Bowers.”
Doing the right thing
Bowers said he came by his
work ethic early because he had to.
His dad died when he was
about 13 and Bowers, the
oldest of two brothers and four
sisters, was thrust instantly into
being the head of the family. His
mother did the best she could to
keep food on the table and cover
the rent by working long hours
in a cotton mill.
But she depended on her
children to do what they could
to help her make ends meet.
Bowers started out pumping gas
at the Texaco station on Highway
70 outside of Hillsborough before
he was old enough to drive. He
made $1 an hour. Later, he hired
on doing electrical work for different outfits.
“You did what you had to do,” Bowers said.
“But we all did it together. A family is a family.”
As soon as he graduated from Orange
County High School in 1970, he married his
high school sweetheart, Dianne Summey.
Making ends meet as a husband and soon-to-
be-father of a son and a daughter didn’t
get any easier.
As Dianne recalled, “He always worked at
least two jobs. Sometimes, he worked three
and he always threw in some weekend work at
the service station.”
In 1971, Dianne got a job at UNC Hospitals
in medical information management and
is now a patient accounts manager. At her
coaxing, her husband came to work at the
University two-and-a-half-years later.
Their daughter, Tammy, was born in
1971, their son, Todd, in 1974. His boy,
Bowers said, is now 32 and battling a severe
form of melanoma. “He fights it every day,”
Bowers said.
Talking of his son led Bowers to talk about
one of his sisters who had died of the disease,
and his own battle with prostate cancer that
was discovered last October. They did not
catch it as early as doctors would have liked,
Bowers said, but he feels good about it since
he had the surgery on Feb. 7.
He lost nine days of work and would
have come back sooner but he had to wait
until they removed a tube. Even then, he
marked down the days he was out as vacation
because he had so many days he hadn’t used
over the years.
His operation, Bowers added, was nothing
compared to what Dianne went through
in January 2001 when she gave one of her
kidneys to Serena Wilson, a co-worker
at the hospital and a friend they knew
through church.
When asked if he supported his wife’s
decision to take such a risk with her own
health, he said, “I told her she had to do what
is right and righteous.”
Asked if he was a religious man, Bowers
answered, “I believe in Jesus Christ.” His
church is Mars Hill Baptist Church on
Highway 57 north of Hillsborough.
He has attended that church ever since he
began dating Dianne. “Her daddy, Lawrence
Summey, said I couldn’t date her unless I
went, and that’s the way it was.”
A lifetime at Carolina
They have attended Mars Hill Baptist
only slightly longer than they have worked at
Carolina, Bowers said.
When they retire at the end of December,
Dianne will have put in 37 years to his 35, not
counting the two-and-a-half years of accumulated
sick leave he will be credited when he retires.
Both said that working here has been a pure
blessing. As for winning the Massey, he didn’t
expect to win the award, Dianne said, or know
exactly how to react to all the attention that
came with it.
As she put it, “He is all about doing the
right thing no matter what and he doesn’t
do it for the glory. He does it because it’s the
right thing.”
Bowers had an easier time handling the
money that comes with a Massey. After taxes,
he said, the $6,000 award came to a little more
than $3,000 and he handed it all to cancer
research. “I didn’t have the money before and
people fighting cancer need that money more
than I do,” he said.
At that, Bowers indicated that the 15 minutes
he had agreed to answer questions was about
up. “I’ve got to do a day’s work to get a day’s
pay,” he said.
On a whim, the questioner asked Bowers
what he had been so busy doing during his
lunch break that he had needed to call back to
do the interview later that afternoon.
He replied that he had to drive out to the
plant to find a co-worker who was sick with
cancer. The man had just about run out of
sick leave and Bowers wanted to see how
many hours of sick leave he could donate to
get the man through.
“Was he a good friend?” the questioner asked.
“Didn’t even know him,” Bowers said.
“Why did you think to give a man you
don’t even know your unused sick leave?” he
was asked.
“Because the man needed it more than me,”
Bowers answered with a hint of impatience.
The answer to that question, of course,
was totally unnecessary. As Bowers knows,
there are some things a man does that speak
for themselves.
Terry Bowers, an electronics technician who will retire at year’s end after 35 years, poses in front of Old East.
Thirty-five-year employee earns a Massey as he nears retirement
November 14, 2007 7
Sit in on ‘A Conversation with Ted Turner’ Nov. 19
Former PBS President
Pat Mitchell will inter-view
Ted Turner, the
pioneering founder of
CNN, about his work,
philanthropy and life in
“A Conversation with
Ted Turner.” The free
public program will take
place at 4 p.m. Nov. 19
in Memorial Hall.
Turner comes to Carolina as the Frey
Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor
in the College of Arts and Sciences. The
Carolina Entrepreneurial Initiative will
co-sponsor the program.
As owner and chair of Turner Broadcasting
System Inc. (TBS Inc.), Turner launched
some of the most recognized brands in the
world, including flagship TBS Supersta-tion
(TBS), Turner Network Television
(TNT), Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and
Cartoon Network.
Turner’s most successful network, CNN,
the world’s first 24-hour cable news network,
revolutionized news media practices with its
“all news, all the time” format and attention
to international coverage. TBS Inc. and its
various networks and brands are now owned
by Time Warner.
Currently, Turner chairs the Turner
Foundation, which supports efforts to improve
air and water quality, develop a sustainable
energy future, maintain wildlife habitat
protection and develop
practices and policies to
curb population growth
rates. He co-chairs
the Nuclear Threat
Initiative and chairs the
United Nations Foun-dation
and Turner
Enterprises Inc. He is a
partner in DT Solar, a
provider of solar energy
technology.
In 2000, Mitchell became the first woman to
be president and chief executive officer (CEO)
of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Today
she is president and CEO of The Paley Center
for Media (formerly The Museum of Television
and Radio), with locations in New York
City and Los Angeles. The Paley Center’s
assortment of radio, television and advertising
content serves as a lens for exploring the
impact of media on life, culture and society. The
center is home to an international collection
of more than 140,000 programs covering
almost 100 years of television and radio history.
During Mitchell’s 30-year career as a
journalist, producer and media executive, her
work has received 44 Emmy Awards and two
Academy Award nominations. She is vice chair
of the Sundance Institute board; a founding
member of Mikhail Gorbachev’s global
environmental organization, Global Green
USA; a member of the Human Rights Watch
board of directors; a member of the Mayo
Clinic’s board of trustees; and on the corporate
boards of Bank of America, Participant
Productions and Sun Microsystems Inc.
The Frey Foundation Professorship was
established in 1989 to bring to campus distin-guished
leaders from a variety of fields. The
late Edward J. and Frances Frey of Grand
Rapids, Mich., established the foundation in
1974. Their son, alumnus David Gardner
Frey, chairs the foundation.
turner
mitchell
Employee Forum changes cycle for officers’ terms
In past years, the end of the calendar year
has marked the season of transition for the
Employee Forum.
Typically, in November the forum nomi-nated
candidates for upcoming officers,
and in December the slate of candidates
gave speeches, members voted and the
new officers were announced. December
also marked the last meeting for those
delegates whose four-year terms were coming
to an end.
That changed at the Nov. 7 forum meeting,
thanks to a new policy the forum approved to
put the election cycle of delegates and officers
in sync with the fiscal year, said Employee
Forum Chair Ernie Patterson. It made sense
for a new chair to take office at the start of a
new fiscal year, not midway through it, he said.
To accommodate that change, delegates
whose terms would have expired in
December will continue to serve on the
board through the end of June, as will the
board officers.
The forum also swore in new delegates
to fill the terms of delegates whose
participation had dropped off because of
work commitments or other factors.
Patterson said it was normal to have
about a dozen vacant positions out of the 60
delegate positions as delegates neared the
end of their terms. With the extended terms,
he said, it was important to fill out the roster
with people who wanted to serve.
The new delegates include some familiar
faces, such as former chair Tommy Griffin
and former vice chair Katherine Graves.
Other new delegates are Megan Bell,
Laurie Norman, Jonathan Stephenson,
Joe Marro, Donna Brooks, Charles
Streeter, Zach Fisher, Dan Barmmer and
Pat Bigelow.
Another new policy calls for the outgoing
chair to remain on the forum an additional
year even if the person’s four-year term as a
forum delegate expired.
Patterson, who will be the first to stay on
an extra year based on the new policy, said
the change was made to ensure a smoother
transition and better continuity.
Issues to address
Patterson devoted most of the three-hour
meeting to one item on the agenda:
listening to delegates identify issues of
concern that they would like the forum to
address in the coming year.
Patterson said the issues raised would
be referred to appropriate committees,
which would use the comments as a basis to
present their priorities for the coming year at
the December meeting.
Most of the issues raised were not
new, but one common theme seemed
to be a call for better communication —
among delegates themselves, between
Human Resources and employees,
and between the forum and the wider
University community.
Jackie Overton, a staff development
specialist with Public Safety, began the
discussion by joking that one thing that could
not be discussed was parking.
Then, on a serious note, she said that one
of her pet peeves was not starting meet-ings
on time. She also insisted that she
would like to “see some sense of respect and
civility restored to the forum.”
She also suggested that the forum “let go
of the things we can’t change and focus on
the things we can.”
Delegates also said that information about
benefits should be communicated as plainly
as possible because of the range of literacy
levels among employees.
Vice Chair David Brannigan said the
forum needed to consider a newspaper of
its own so that it could print its message
instead of relying on the Gazette.
Since its October meeting, the forum has
published a special edition of its electronic
“In Touch” newsletter devoted exclusively
to the issue of collective bargaining,
available at forum.unc.edu.
Michael McQuown, a media technician
with the School of Public Health, said the
forum had passed a number of resolutions on
a range of issues the past year, and it needed
to do a better job of following up on each
resolution to see whether it had accomplished
its intended effect. McQuown was instru-mental
in crafting the language for many of
the resolutions.
There was considerable discussion about
how to recognize employees for their
service in a way that seemed more real and
warm, less cold and impersonal.
Jill Crowder, administrative assistant in
Grounds Services, said she received a paper
from Human Resources that was a black-and-
white photocopy and included
a stamped-on signature from Brenda
Malone, associate vice chancellor for
human resources.
Cutting costs is a good idea, Crowder
said, but it should not be done in a way
that cheapened a gesture intended to make
employees feel valued and appreciated.
“That was so insulting I threw it in the
garbage,” Crowder said.
Malone did not take issue with Crowder’s
criticism. “This is why this is so helpful,”
Malone said. ���I didn’t even know I sent (the
letter) out.”
Council examines
priority registration,
research funding
Some Carolina students are eligible to
register for courses ahead of their classmates.
Known as priority registration, it is a common
practice among universities to accommodate
students with special needs and students
whose university requirements or obligations
create unusual academic challenges.
While most universities have such a system,
the structure varies from school to school,
said Steve Reznick, director of developmental
psychology and chair of the Priority Registration
Task Force.
“Our current system is really a complex web
of permissions, traditions and precedents,”
Reznick said at the Nov. 9 Faculty Council
meeting. “This task force wants to replace
that system with a transparent, regulated one
with systematic oversight.”
Conversations about fine-tuning Carolina’s
system began last fall with the Faculty
Committee on Athletics, which established the
task force. Athletes who practice the maximum
20 hours per week allowed by the NCAA are
eligible for priority registration consideration.
Other groups that might be eligible include
students with disabilities, students studying
abroad and students whose majors require
a practicum or clinic for licensure, such as
education, nursing and allied health.
Under the new proposal, a University official
responsible for potentially eligible students
would forward students’ names and a
rationale to the University Registrar. A tally
and the rationale statements, but not the
names of the students, would then be sent to
the Priority Registration Advisory Committee
(PRAC) for final determination. Meetings of
the PRAC and its decisions would be public.
In general, no more than 25 percent of the
seats in each course section would be available
for priority registration, according to the
proposal. Students who were granted permission
to register early would be moved to the head of
their cohort. For example, juniors given priority
status would register ahead of other juniors,
but not before seniors.
Concerns raised by the council included
whether non-priority students would be
closed out of required courses for their
majors, whether individuals, not only
groups, should be able to qualify for priority
status and whether students’ extracurricular
obligations should be singled out over
academic ones. The Office of Faculty
Governance plans to establish an online
discussion board for faculty members to air
additional questions or concerns.
In December, the council will consider the
task force’s proposal, which has been endorsed
by the athletics committee, the Educational
Policy Committee and Student Government
representatives. If adopted, the task force
recommended that the process be considered
“a four-year experiment” and reviewed again
at that time.
Future research directions
A four-member panel discussed challenges
See Council, page 14
FACULTY COUNCIL
EMPLOYEE FORUM
8 University Gazette
Experts called the drought of 2002 the worst
the state had ever seen. But this year’s drought
has already edged out the 2002 drought for
that distinction. What is even worse is that this
year’s drought appears to have no end in sight.
The “U.S. Drought Monitor,” published by
the National Weather Service, reported that the
drought in the East Coast area including North
Carolina will continue through January because
of La Niña conditions — and could intensify.
The University has responded to this year’s
water shortage in the same way it did five years
ago. It has urged employees, both at home
and at work, to limit their water use. It has
constructed new buildings designed to capture
and reuse rainwater; it has limited the
irrigation of athletic fields to a level necessary
for the players’ safety; and it has installed new
“waterless” toilets.
Chancellor James Moeser, in an Oct. 29
summary to UNC President Erskine Bowles,
reported annualized water savings of 25 percent.
Moeser also called attention to the chilled water
savings yet to be realized this winter.
Since the peak cooling system ended in
October, Moeser wrote, water consumption
will be reduced about 75 percent compared to
peak demand.
In addition, Carolina, in partnership with
Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA),
is constructing a system that will provide highly
treated, or “reclaimed,” water from OWASA’s
Mason Farm Sewage Treatment Plant to
replace potable water use in Carolina’s water
system cooling towers. (Potable water is
water suitable for drinking because it contains
no harmful elements).
The system, when it comes on line in 2009,
will permanently eliminate the use of more than
200 million gallons of potable water a year.
Engineers from OWASA and the University’s
Energy Services Department are also at work
studying whether temporary above-ground
piping from the sewage treatment plant to some
of the chilled water plants could be installed in
time for the 2008 cooling season.
Students as well as employees have been
asked to do their part — and are responding to
the challenge.
Students in Carolina’s residence halls have
engaged in friendly competition with their
counterparts at N.C. State to see which group
can save the most water between last Saturday’s
Carolina-State football game in Raleigh and
Feb. 20, 2008, the day the men’s basketball
teams will face off on the court.
Carolina officials plan periodic readings of
water meters that will be posted along with
updates on the Sustainability Office Web site,
sustainability.unc.edu.
“We’re calling on students in our residence
halls to be creative and have some fun while
stepping up to meet this challenge,” said Eve
Carson, president of the Student Government,
and Brian Sugg, president of the Residence Hall
Association, in their e-mail to residence hall
students. “To those of you who have already
been doing your part, thank you. Now we’re
asking everyone to cut back even more.”
Moeser said that students’ conservation
efforts are key because water use in residence
halls represents more than 30 percent of the
University’s yearly water demand.
OWASA, which provides water and sewer
services for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area,
including the University, has reported that its
reservoirs are about half full.
The late-October rainfall had a nominal
effect on replenishing the water supply because
the ground was dry and ponds in the OWASA’s
watersheds were low. Assuming no additional
rainfall, the water on hand would last six to
seven months, OWASA officials said.
OWASA also reported that the community’s
overall water usage has dropped in response to
the crisis, but its customers needed to cut back
even more.
In the first week of November, OWASA
customers averaged using about eight million
gallons per day — down from water usage
exceeding nine million gallons per day in early
and mid-October. But the water conservation
goal for a “Stage Two” water shortage, declared
by OWASA Oct. 18, is to limit demand to
7.3 million gallons per day or less, OWASA
officials said.
For information about campus sustainability
initiatives, refer to sustainability.unc.edu. For
general water conservation information, refer
to www.owasa.org.
University reports 25 percent reduction in water consumption
University water savings estimates for 2007
n 75 percent reduction in chilled water production from peak summer
demand (projected 155,466,000 gallons)
n Rainwater capture systems (1,356,226 gallons)
n Water-free urinals (2,128,000 gallons)
n Ultra low-flush urinals (126,685 gallons)
n Dual-flush toilet valves (489,134 gallons)
n New toilets at North Carolina Botanical Garden (88,920 gallons)
n Low-flow showerheads (38,225 gallons)
n Frontloading washing machines (1,035,299 gallons)
n Metered or infrared faucets (1,608,779)
n Discontinued spray irrigation on landscape (12,000,000 gallons)
n Reduced/discontinued irrigation of athletic fields (10,920,000 gallons)
n Discontinued window washing for 130 buildings (16,848,000 gallons)
n Discontinued decorative fountains (168,000 gallons)
n Discontinued vehicle washing (255,000 gallons)
n Repaired pipe leak near South Chiller Plant (3,700,000 gallons)
n Closed loop stills in laboratories (2,509,200 gallons)
n New filter system for Woollen Gym pools (163,800 gallons)
Connolly helps troops overseas
On last count, more than 525 boxes weighing
7,000-plus pounds had already been postmarked
and sent overseas to U.S. service personnel
deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
For 22 months Robert Connolly, associate
professor of finance and economics in the
Kenan-Flagler Business School, and his wife
have recruited the help of many University
faculty, staff and students to collect and organize
care packages to send abroad. Connolly said he
had learned that the people who receive these
care packages appreciate that “they haven’t been
forgotten by the rest of us.”
Currently, the couple is undertaking a specific
project for the winter: supplying the 173rd
Airborne, which is deployed in the mountains
of eastern Afghanistan, with the necessary
supplies to make it through both a holiday
season away from home and a harsh winter.
Members of the brigade will be spending the
winter at various outposts and forward operating
bases along the Pakistan border. Receiving
supplies is often challenging due to the weather
and terrain in the region.
Based on e-mail interaction with company-level
officers and senior non-commissioned
officers, Connolly is putting out a plea for the
following items:
n Coffee mugs with tops (Thermos)
n Nalgene bottles
n Ramen noodles
n Dry soup mixes of the “just add water”
variety
n Coffee
n Hygiene items
n Leftover Halloween candy
n Hot chocolate mix
n Recent magazines
n Healthy snacks
n Tea
To help ensure that the brigade receives the
care packages before Christmas, Connolly is
requesting donations as quickly as possible. His
goal is to send them by Nov. 28. Items may be
dropped off at Connolly’s office in Room 4415
of the McColl Building or left with Barbara Ann
Aversano in the MBA program office.
Robert Connolly stands over the collected goods for
care packages destined for U.S. service personnel.
More than 100 ROTC midshipmen
and cadets assembled in dress
uniform at the Nov. 9 Veterans Day
ceremony held at the Newman
Catholic Student Center Parish. Brig.
Gen. Margaret C. Wilmoth (right)
spoke at the free public event. This
year’s ceremony was sponsored by
the Army ROTC Unit, the College of
Arts and Sciences and the Curriculum
in Peace, War and Defense. Veterans
Day, formerly called Armistice Day,
falls on Nov. 11, the anniversary
of the armistice signing by the
Allies and Germans in 1918 that
ended World War I.
honoring our veterans
November 14, 2007 9
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10 University Gazette
Faculty/Staff News & Notes
Decorat ions & Distinctions
Jones to step
down as Kenan-
Flagler dean
Steve Jones, dean of the Kenan-Flagler
Business School since 2003, will step down
when his five-year term ends June 30, 2008.
“While I am sorry to see Dean Jones’ tenure
as head of our business school end, I am
supportive of his decision.
This change affords
him the opportunity to
pursue other endeavors
while it allows us to re-tain
his many strengths,”
said Bernadette Gray-
Little, executive vice
chancellor and provost.
“I am very pleased
that the University will
continue to benefit from
Dean Jones’ experience and commitment.”
For the past five years, Jones “has worked
to enhance the reputation of our outstanding
business school,” Gray-Little said.
Jones’ decision does not signal his retirement
or departure from the school. “The school will
remain my ‘first among equals’ and I look forward
to remaining on the faculty and contributing
in fundraising, in the classroom and in new
initiatives to give the school even greater reach
and impact,” he said.
Milestones under Jones’ leadership include
enhancing student quality and Kenan-
Flagler’s reputation with corporate recruiters,
hiring 25 faculty members in the last two years,
raising alumni support to an all-time high, add-ing
13 endowed professorships and increasing
fellowship funding by 37 percent.
When Jones was named dean, he had recently
returned to the United States after 15 years
overseas and 30 years in business.
He had served as chief executive officer of
Suncorp Metway Ltd., one of Australia’s 25
largest companies, and managing director of
ANZ Banking Group N.Z. Ltd., one of New
Zealand’s top companies.
A search committee will be formed to
recommend a new dean, Gray-Little said.
jones
AVC for information security appointed
William Cameron, a senior information
technology specialist with extensive experi-ence
in administrative and technical aspects
of information security,
has been appointed
assistant vice chancellor
for information secu-rity.
He started work
Nov. 12.
Cameron has expe-rience
in vulnerability
management, threat
management, incident
management, security
awareness training,
policy development and computer forensic
investigations.
Before coming to Carolina, Cameron
served as an information security specialist
with the N.C. Office of Information
Technology Services. There, he managed
several information security procurement
initiatives that resulted in statewide contracts
for enterprise anti-virus software and mobile
data encryption products.
Cameron has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial
Engineering from N.C. State University and
a master’s degree in business administration
from UNC-Greensboro. He is a certified
Information Systems Security Professional,
Information Systems Auditor, ISC2 Infor-mation
Security Architecture Professional
and holds a SANS Global Information
Assurance Certification.
MICHAEL D. AITKEN
n Title: Chair, Department of Environ-mental
Sciences and Engineering.
n Effective date of appointment:
Sept. 1, 2006.
n Education: Ph.D., University of
Notre Dame.
n At Carolina
since: 1987.
n Classes taught
at the graduate level:
Environmental Pro-cess
Biotechnology.
n Research focus:
Biodegradation of
organic pollutants,
biological processes
for waste treatment.
n Major honors:
Board Certified Member, American Academy
of Environmental Engineers, President of the
Association of Environmental Engineering
and Science Professors.
CHANING J. DER
n Title: Sarah Graham Kenan Professor
of Pharmacology.
n Effective date of appointment:
July 1, 2006.
n Education: Ph.D., University of
California-Irvine.
n At Carolina since: 1992.
n Classes taught at the graduate level:
Cell Biology II, Introduction to Molecular
Pharmacology, Principles of Pharmacology
and Physiology.
n Classes taught at the undergraduate
level: Molecular Biology.
n Research focus: Molecular basis of
cancer and signal transduction.
n Clinical interest: Lung, colon, pancreatic,
breast, ovarian, skin cancers.
n Major publications: Capell, B.C.,
Erdos, M.R., Madigan, J.P., Fiordalisi, J.J.,
Varga, R., Conneely, K.N., Gordon, L.B.,
Der, C.M., Cox, A.D., and Collins, F.S.
(2005) Inhibiting farnesylation of progerin
prevents the characteristic nuclear blebbing
of Hutchinson-Guilford progeria syndrome.
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102(36): 12879-84.
Mitin, N., Rossman,
K.L., and Der, C.J.
(2005) Signaling in-terplay
in Ras Super-family
function. Curr
Biol 15(14): R563-74.
n About the en-dowment:
The Sarah
Gr a ham Ke na n
Professorships were
established by the
Sarah Graham Kenan
Foundation Inc.
Kenan was born in 1876. She provided
the endowment that helped establish the
Southern Historical Collection in the
University’s library.
The Sarah Graham Kenan Professorships
were created in 1968 to benefit the law,
medical and business schools.
ANDREW F. OLSHAN
n Title: Chair, Department of Epide-miology.
n Effective date
of appointment:
Sept. 10, 2006.
n Education:
Ph.D., University of
Washington.
n At Carolina
since: 1991.
n Classes taught
at the graduate
level: Reproductive
and Perinatal Epide-miology,
Cancer Epidemiology.
n Research focus: Epidemiology of
cancer and birth defects.
JESICA SMITH
n Title: Albert and Gladys Hall Coates
Professor for Teaching Excellence.
n Effective date of appointment:
Sept. 1, 2006.
n Education: J.D., University of
Pennsylvania.
n At Carolina since: 2000.
n Research and clinical focus: Criminal
law, criminal procedure and criminal
evidence.
n Major publications: Crawford v.
Washington: Confrontation One Year Later
(2005 and 2007 supp.); NC Crimes (6th ed.)
(forthcoming Dec. 2007).
n About the endowment: The Albert
Coates Professorship and the Gladys Hall
Coates Professorship were established in
the Institute of Government by Chapel
Hill entrepreneur and philanthropist
Paul A. Johnston and his wife, Margaret
McGirt Johnston.
Gladys Hall Coates, a researcher and writer
of University history, is the wife of Albert
Coates, the Carolina law professor who was
the founder and first director of the Institute
of Government in 1931.
The couple used their private funds to
finance the fledgling
institute.
The building at
223 East Franklin
St. that first housed
the ins t i tut e i s
named for them.
Both received the
General Alumni
Association Dis-tinguished
Service
Medal. Albert re-ceived
the medal in 1979 and Gladys
received hers in 1992.
Herbert B. Peterson
Professor and chair in the department
of maternal and child health in the School
of Public Health and professor in the
department of obstetrics and gynecology at
the School of Medicine, Peterson has been
elected to membership in the Institute of
Medicine (IOM).
New members are selected from candidates
nominated for their professional achieve-ment
and commitment to service. Sixty-five
new members and four foreign associates
were chosen this year, bringing the IOM’s
total active membership to 1,538.
Peterson is known nationally and
internationally for his work in women’s
reproductive health, epidemiology, health
policy and evidence-based decision-making.
David A. Felton
Professor of prosthodontics in the School of
Dentistry, Felton was awarded the American
College of Prosthodontists Distinguished
Service Award on Nov. 2 at the college’s
annual session in Scottsdale, Ariz.
A past president of the college and
editor-in-chief of the Journal of Prosthodontics,
Felton was honored for “his long-term
See Distinctions, page 13
aitken der
olshan smith
aitken, der, olshan, smith
Appointments to endowed professorships, department chairs
cameron
November 14, 2007 11
Human Resources
Spend flexible spending account money this year
If you are enrolled in one or both of the
flexible spending accounts this year, you should
spend that money before the end of 2007.
Participants in the Health Care and the
Dependent Day Care flexible spending
accounts must incur eligible expenses by
Dec. 31, to receive reimbursement. Claims
can be submitted until March 31, 2008.
Eligible day-care expenses include:
n Payments to nursery schools, day-care
centers or individual day-care providers who
meet all state and local laws and regulations;
n Payments for before/after-school care for
kindergarten and higher grades; and
n Payments in lieu of regular day care for
day camps (not overnight camps).
You can use the health-care spending
account to reimburse eligible expenses for
yourself, your spouse and your children.
Eligible expenses include:
n Deductibles and copayments you have to pay
under your or your spouse’s medical coverage;
n Your coinsurance (the part of covered
expenses you have to pay) for any medical or
dental bills after you have met your deductible;
n Most over-the-counter drugs and medi-cines.
Many pharmacies and stores now mark
these eligible expenses on your receipt;
n Prescription drug copays;
n Dental and vision expenses, including
glasses, contacts and contact solutions and
n Infertility treatment.
These expenses must be related to medical
care and cannot be eligible for reimbursement
using your medical insurance.
Other expenses may be eligible as well. For
more information about both flexible spending
accounts, refer to www.ncflex.org, Benefits
Highlights. For a complete list of eligible
and ineligible expenses for both spending
accounts, log on to www.ncflex.org; refer to
Resources, Forms, then Claims Kit.
Winter blood
drive set for
Dec. 18
The winter Carolina Blood Drive will
be held Dec. 18 from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in
Woollen Gym. Plan now to give a gift from
the heart of Carolina during the holiday
season, when blood donations are critical
for our fellow North Carolinians.
Individuals may donate whole blood
as often as every 56 days (eight weeks), so
check your calendar to ensure that you are
able to join other University donors for this
important blood drive.
Refer to www.unc.edu/blood to make
an appointment online, or call 96-BLOOD
(962-5663, ext. 226), between 8 a.m. and
5 p.m. Monday through Friday through
Dec. 17. Appointments are encouraged, but
walk-ins will also be accepted. Donors are
given a hearty snack after they donate and will
receive a free American Red Cross t-shirt.
The American Red Cross is also offering
participants the option of collecting double
red cells from qualifying donors. Double
red blood cell donations allow the donor
to give two units of blood, which increases
the number of individuals receiving help.
Donors with blood types O and B are able to
give double red cells. This process requires
additional time and has minimum height and
weight restrictions. Refer to www.unc.edu/
blood for additional information.
Volunteers are vital to make this event a
success. Individuals who would like to vol-unteer
their time can go to www.unc.edu/
blood and click on the volunteer link for
details and shift options.
For more information, contact Employee
Services at 962-1483.
Eat smartly, move more
this holiday season
The holiday season is around the corner.
If you are looking for ways to eat smartly and
move more during the season, the “Maintain,
Don’t Gain! Holiday Challenge” is the
solution. This is a free six-week, online
challenge that encourages you to maintain
your weight during the holidays.
The challenge begins Nov. 19 and ends
Dec. 31. Sign up is easy — simply go to
www.MyEatSmartMoveMore.com and
click on the “Maintain, Don’t Gain! Holiday
Challenge” link to register.
The challenge is designed to help you
manage the triggers that cause you to gain
weight over the holidays. Each week, you will
receive a free newsletter containing tips on
various topics such as healthy Thanksgiving
meals, managing holiday stress, navigating
holiday parties and more.
Recipes for quick, easy, healthy dinners
to prepare on busy nights, as well as healthy
holiday goodies, will also be included. A
food journal, activity log, and weight log
are available for free download. You will be
encouraged to follow the tips and strategies
provided and to track your food intake,
activity level and weight.
Each week, two participants will be chosen
randomly to receive an Eat Smart, Move
More N.C. prize pack.
Star Heels kicks off
In October, Carolina entered
the eighth year of the successful
Star Heels Program, which
provides awards to individual
departments to recognize and
reward excellent employees.
Under this popular program,
departments are given the
flexibility to choose award
criteria and timing of awards.
Recipients receive an award
letter and a $25 gift certificate
to their choice of one of four
local vendors.
“Along with these, they
also receive much-deserved
acknowledgement from their department
and among their colleagues for the great
job they are doing each day,” said Shelly
Green, Star Heels program coordinator in
Human Resources.
TIAA-CREF continues to be the sole
sponsor of the program.
New office serves
EPA non-faculty
positions
The Office of Human Resources (OHR)
has a new EPA non-faculty human re-sources
unit in Suite 1300 of the Admin-istrative
Office Building, 104 Airport Dr.
On Nov. 1, all EPA (exempt from
the State Personnel Act) non-faculty
personnel responsibilities were trans-ferred
to OHR. Matthew Brody, assistant
vice chancellor for human resources,
oversees these activities and is assisted
by Bonnie Smith, who is temporarily
assuming the duties of EPA non-faculty
human resources officer.
To contact the new office, call 962-2897.
Adverse weather policy always in effect
The adverse weather policy is always in
effect. Any time you cannot attend work due
to a weather-related event, the policy applies.
This includes having to stay home to care
for a child who could not attend school due to
adverse weather.
Human Resources has detailed adverse
weather information available at hr.unc.edu/
hottopics/adverseweather. This includes
resources to determine the University’s
current adverse weather condition, a link to
the Department of Public Safety’s Web page
and access to the adverse weather leave policy.
The University uses three adverse weather
operating conditions:
n Condition Level I: “Normal” weather
conditions, so the University is open on a
normal schedule. Staff can still navigate the
campus and local areas safely.
n Condition Level II: “Severe” weather,
including heavy snow or ice and/or heavy
accumulations, so public transportation is lim-ited.
Sidewalks are in poor condition. Classes
are canceled, but University offices are open.
n Condition Level III: “Extreme” weather,
such as unusually large accumulations of snow,
ice or sleet. Law enforcement advises no one to
travel except in an emergency. The University
has been closed.
Non-emergency employees are responsible
for their regular duties during Conditions
I and II.
They must make up any time missed and
should make their own decisions about coming
to work based on personal safety. Only
emergency employees must report to work
during Condition III events.
Announcements indicating the closing of
state government offices due to adverse weather
do not apply to the University.
For details regarding the University’s current
condition, employees can call the University’s
adverse weather hotline at 843-1234 or visit
the UNC main home page, www.unc.edu,
for specific updates.
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Dan Re ed, who
launched the Renaissance
Computing Institute
(RENCI) in 2004, will
become director of
scalable computing and
multicore at Microsoft
Research effective
Dec. 3.
Reed came to Carolina
in 2003 from the Uni-versity
of Illinois, where he led the National
Center for Supercomputing Applications
from 2000 to 2003 and the computer science
department from 1996 to 2001. He currently
is Chancellor’s Eminent Professor and senior
adviser for strategy and innovation to
Chancellor James Moeser.
“We are grateful for all of Dan’s efforts to
successfully launch the Renaissance Computing
Institute and its strategic partnerships with
other universities and the state of North
Carolina,” Moeser said. “His service in national
leadership positions addressing important
science and technology issues has also brought
an invaluable perspective to our thinking about
the research enterprise at the University.”
Reed said the chance to influence the future
of computing on the largest scale at Microsoft
was irresistible, both as a researcher and as a
builder of large-scale systems.
“The transition to multicore — or multiple
processors per chip — and the emergence
of very large-scale data centers that deliver
Web-based services are fundamental changes
in computing with deep implications,” he said.
“This technological sea change will reshape
computing, research, the economy and our
lives for years to come.”
Alan Blatecky, deputy director of RENCI,
will serve as the institute’s interim direc-tor.
He was the first RENCI employee
recruited by Reed and had been executive
director of the San Diego Supercomputer
Center. Blatecky had previous N.C. experience.
RENCI, a venture of Carolina, Duke and
N.C. State universities and the state of North
Carolina, leverages its expertise and multidis-ciplinary
resources in computing, networking
and data technologies to stir innovation and
address previously intractable problems for the
state and beyond.
Reed leaves Carolina for Microsoft Research in December
reed
the principle of physically connecting the
north and sound areas of campus to foster
stronger ties between academic affairs
and health affairs, Lowman said.
The Carolina Physical Science Complex, at
the center of campus on what was once consid-ered
the boundary between health affairs and
academic affairs, is an example of how new
construction has fostered that connectedness.
Lowman also said department chairs
and school deans were finding more ways
to incorporate interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary
research into decisions about
tenure and promotion.
Adequate compensation
Even with all these factors in Carolina’s
favor, Lowman still worries.
He understands that professors, like
everyone who works for a living, have to pay
attention to their paychecks and that a positive
working environment is only half the battle in
the competition for the best.
Lowman credits the UNC Board of Gov-ernors
and University Board of Trustees for
recognizing this challenge and establishing a
goal to raise pay for tenured and tenured-track
faculty to the 80th percentile of their peers.
“We’ve got a tremendous building program
that has given us state-of-the-art facilities,
but we’ve still got to be able to offer more
competitive salaries and fringe benefits
because great facilities and collegiality can
only take us so far,” Lowman said.
“If somebody else offers you 50 percent
more money, it’s hard to turn that down. So
money clearly has to play a major role in our
success in attracting that best and brightest
cohort of faculty members for the next
generation. That is a key issue.”
A changing professorate
Another concern that Lowman touched on
in his report is the growing number of faculty
members who are not tenured or on the
tenure track.
From 1996-97 to 2006-07, total faculty at
Carolina increased by more than 30 percent —
from 2,506 to 3,272 — while the number
of tenured and tenure-track faculty actually
dropped by 4.3 percent — from 1,793 to 1,716.
This pattern, Lowman said, is the unintended
consequence of the University��s burgeoning
research enterprise. Most of Carolina’s fixed-term
faculty are research appointments and
are typically paid out of research grants or
other non-continuous funding sources. At the
same time, Carolina has a growing number
of clinical professors paid out of income
generated from patient care.
Lowman said the change has not had much
effect up to this point, but he sees embedded
in this structural shift in the academic work-force
a potential threat to academic freedom.
“You don’t want to be in the position of
having research faculty members reluctant
to take on controversial research subjects or
publish findings that may be controversial
because they fear for their jobs,” Lowman said.
A major rationale for having tenure is to
protect academic freedom so that professors
can speak out and write within their areas of
expertise secure in the knowledge their jobs are
protected, he said. “That is one reason tenure
has been such a cherished and important
norm within American higher education.”
Lowman also worries that the declining
number of tenure-track openings could deter
the best and brightest from coming to
Carolina for what they might perceive as
dead-end, fixed-term appointments.
“We want to make sure there is enough
of a perception among the people we hire
that there is a permeability in the boundaries
between a research faculty member and a
tenure-track faculty member that we can hire
the best and brightest across the board,” he said.
Going global
Another challenge will be competing for
the best foreign-born faculty members. Over-all,
foreign-born scientists and engineers have
more than doubled in the past 30 years and
the National Science Foundation expects this
trend to continue to address the shortage in
American-born Ph.D.s across all fields of
science and engineering.
“It is hard to be a global university if all of
your faculty members are American,” Low-man
said. “That doesn’t exactly send the right
message to potential students who want to
learn to live in a new global society.”
Since all major U.S. universities want to
become global universities, Carolina will face
formidable competition for these professors,
he said.
“We’re starting to see universities in other
countries start to compete successfully for
American-born faculty,” Lowman said. “So
this street goes in both directions.”
Enrollment growth
Overlaying all these factors is the anticipated
rise in student enrollment in the decade ahead.
“We pride ourselves here in a strong
undergraduate tradition of teaching, and
I personally very much subscribe to the
philosophy that the best scientists, scholars and
artists are oftentimes the best, most exciting
teachers because they are state-of-the-art
themselves,” Lowman said.
However, many large research universities
have had to hire a growing number of
part-time, temporary instructors when budgets
have not kept pace with enrollment growth,
Lowman said. So far, that has not been a
problem at Carolina.
“We keep class sizes smaller. We have
our first-year seminars that get our freshmen
directly in contact with leading professors,”
he said. “But maintaining that contact
between our faculty and our students at a time
of enrollment growth — and at a time when
we know a large percentage of our faculty is
going to retire and leave the workforce — is
going to be a tremendous challenge for us.”
On the other hand
Lowman is quick to throw in some caveats
about the scope of the challenge ahead. Maybe
the number of faculty who will be retiring will
not be as big as he and others now project.
After all, the baby-boom generation has been
anything but predictable.
Currently, about 90 percent of faculty
members have retired by the age of 70. But
that doesn’t mean the pattern will continue.
Take, for example, Nobel Prize-winning
Oliver Smithies, who is well into his 80s and
has said he has no intention of retiring because
he loves what he does.
Whatever happens, Lowman remains
reasonably optimistic about Carolina’s chances
to attract great faculty that will keep this a
great university.
“It is still going to be a lot of work,” Lowman
said. “There are going to be a lot of search
committees for people to serve on over the
next eight years to get it right. But frankly,
faculty hiring in my personal opinion is the
most important decision that a department
chair and a dean make. Our research and
teaching reputations rest squarely on the
shoulders of the faculty we hire.
“The faculty we hire may be with us 30
years. And if we hire the right people, we want
them to stay, we want them to prosper and we
want them to develop their careers and their
intellectual capabilities and bring glory to
the University as well as create that dynamite
environment to teach students.”
Retiring Faculty from page 3
Michael Reiter
Reiter, a Carolina alumnus and global pioneer
in the development of critical computer security
protocols for air traffic control, Internet connec-tivity,
stock markets and
other vital networks, also
came to Carolina this
summer.
As the Lawrence M.
Slifkin Distinguished
Professor of Computer
Science, he will develop a
new program in comput-er
security. A Morehead
scholar who graduated
first in the class of 1989,
Reiter earned a doctorate from Cornell.
He taught at Carnegie Mellon University and
was director of Secure Systems Research at Bell
Laboratories at Lucent Technologies. He is ed-itor-
in-chief of the journal ACM Transactions
on Information and Computer Security.
Stefan Litwin
Litwin, an internationally renowned pianist,
composer and expert on the music of 20th-century
composer Arnold Schoenberg, will join
the Carolina faculty in January 2008 as the George
Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Music.
He is a professor of contemporary music and
interpretation at the Hochschule fur Musik
Saar, one of the top colleges in Germany. He
previously served as a distinguished artist-in-residence
at Christ College at Cambridge
University and as a fellow at the Institute for
Advanced Study in Berlin.
Litwin performs regularly with renowned
conductors and orchestras. He holds a doctor-ate
in music from the State University of New
York at Stony Brook.
Simon Blackburn
Blackburn, formerly the Edna J. Koury
Professor of Philosophy at Carolina, currently
holds a professorship at Cambridge University.
Considered one of the most interesting and
influential philosophers alive today, he will
rejoin the University faculty in fall 2008. He will
be a professor in the philosophy department one
semester each year for five of the next six years.
Blackburn is a fellow of the British Academy
and is an expert on the philosophy of the mind,
including language, psychology, metaphysics,
metaethics and science.
He is the author of many publications,
including The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy,
Think, Being Good, Lust, Truth: A Guide for
the Perplexed and Plato’s Republic (2006).
reiter
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Scribe to advance digitization
at UNC Library
The first “Scribe” in the Southeast was due
to arrive at the UNC Library in November,
thanks to a recent agreement between the
library and the San Francisco-based
Internet Archive.
“Scribe” is a high-speed scanner and software
application developed by the Internet
Archive that will speed the conversion
of books to digital format and encourage
experimentation with the free delivery of
digitized material via the Internet.
Scribe will help UNC develop capacity for
high-speed digitization of library collections
and will catalyze collaborative experimentation.
Renaissance Computing Institute has signed
on as a partner with the library to explore the
delivery and use of digital texts for research
and education.
UNC will initially turn Scribe to the
digitization of large and heavily consulted
collections.Under review for the pilot phase
are approximately 22,000 Spanish-language
dramas from the 18th through the early-20th
centuries; 1,200 American and British travel
accounts published between 1782 and 1920;
a century of back issues of UNC’s yearbook,
“Yackety Yack;” and thousands of ephemeral
items that document the lives of North Caro-linians
since the middle of the 18th century.
A public rollout of the Scribe and a formal
ribbon cutting for UNC’s expanded digital
library are planned for early 2008.
Center at UNC-Charlotte to focus
on urbanization, regional growth
The Renaissance Computing Institute
(RENCI) will partner with UNC-Charlotte
to create a new RENCI engagement center
focused on forecasting urban growth and
its impacts.
It will be administered by UNC-Charlotte’s
Urban Institute and will be developed as a part-nership
among the Urban Institute, the Center
for Applied Geographic Information Science
and the Charlotte Visualization Center. The
three campus entities will collaborate on
interdisciplinary research that addresses trends
in land use and development in the Charlotte
area, and the effects of urbanization on natural
resources, traffic patterns, urban infrastructure,
quality of life and disaster response.
RENCI will develop models to forecast
future urban development, create and dissem-inate
interactive, visual simulations of data on
urbanization trends, and deploy visual decision
support tools that stakeholders will be able to
use to develop and assess sustainable growth
and economic development policies.
Aspiring entrepreneurs invited to
compete in Carolina Challenge
The fourth annual Carolina Challenge is
under way with a call to aspiring entrepreneurs
at UNC to enter the entrepreneurial business
plan competition.
The challenge is open to teams from any
discipline that includes at least one UNC
student or member of the faculty or staff.
It is a student-led project of the Carolina
Entrepreneurial Initiative designed to help
participants gain knowledge and skills needed
to launch sustainable enterprises. Teams
receive a wide range of training opportunities
during the academic year to improve their
business and presentation skills.
For more information on a Nov. 27 prep
session and application information, see caroli-nachallenge.
org or call Maura Feil (516-984-
7268) or e-mail mfeil@email.unc.edu.
News Briefs from page 5
We have all heard nightmares about identity
theft. And we have all been warned never to
share personal information.
But most people have the common
misconception that personal information is
limited to a Social Security number or bank
account number. Today, such information as
birth date, phone number, address or driver’s
license information can be just as dangerous
if it gets in the wrong hands.
One way identity thieves obtain personal
information is by “phishing” for consumers’
personal identity data and financial account
credentials.
One strategy used is sending “spoofed”
e-mails to lead consumers to visit Web sites
designed to trick recipients into divulging
credit card numbers, account usernames,
passwords and Social Security numbers.
By creating sites with names similar to
legitimate banks, e-retailers and credit card
companies, phishers may convince recipients
to respond.
Responding to any e-mail from people or
organizations asking
for sensitive informa-tion
carries risks.
While victims of
phishing voluntarily give out personal
information, other victims of identity theft
have personal information stolen from their
computers.
The first line of defense against computer
intruders is never to share passwords with
anyone, change them immediately if you
think someone might have obtained them,
create strong and complex passwords, have
different passwords for different systems and
store passwords in a safe place.
For more information about protection
against phishing, refer to www.antiphish-ing.
org.
How passwords are stolen
How do intruders discover a password? An
intruder might point a password-guessing
tool (which incorporates a custom dictionary)
at a system to try to discover the passwords
on that system. These
tools automate guess-ing
and can attempt
thousands of possible
combinations of characters in a very short
period of time.
For example, the intruder might try “tarheel”
as a possible password. At Carolina, such a
simple password would never be allowed as an
Onyen password because it is so easy to guess.
A seven-character password might be guessed
within hours.
Onyen passwords follow guidelines that
make them strong and complex. They must
be at least eight characters long, contain at
least one letter and one digit and must share
fewer than six consecutive characters with the
previous Onyen password.
For more information about creating
a strong password, refer to help.unc.
edu/4873.
How many passwords to have
Now that you have created a strong password,
how many passwords should you have? If you
have a number of sites that need passwords,
such as bank accounts, Onyen or non-UNC
e-mail accounts, a best practice is to have
diverse passwords so that if an intruder obtains
one of them, the person will not have access to
all your sensitive information.
How to keep track of passwords
One solution for storing passwords is
Cryptainer, a computer program that creates an
encrypted storage location where you can safely
keep a spreadsheet or document that contains
all your passwords.
Cryptainer is free for up to 25 megabytes
of data. To learn more about this application
and how to use it to store passwords, refer to
help.unc.edu/5900. Other free or low-cost
solutions are also available.
So when it comes to passwords, remember:
Never share them with anyone, make them
complex, make them diverse and be sure to
store them safely.
If you have questions, call 962-HELP.
Passwords are the keys to protecting your online kingdom
WhatitsABOUT
Women’s soccer program receives $1 million endowment
A $1 million dollar gift from the
William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust
will help endow scholarships and the
operating budget of the University’s
women’s soccer program.
The endowment will be made in the
name of William R. Kenan Jr. in honor
of alumnus Braxton Schell, an attorney for
the William R. Kenan Jr. Funds.
A longtime fan and supporter of the
soccer program, Schell regularly attends
the team’s games and has traveled with
the team on overseas exhibition tours
as well.
The grant also honors a successful athletic
program that serves as a model of the best
that college sports can offer to its partici-pants,
fans and alumni, said Richard M.
Krasno, executive director of the trust.
“We hope that our gift will enable the
women’s soccer program to thrive and
continue to demonstrate that all college
athletic programs can be a source of pride
and excitement to the UNC-Chapel Hill
community.”
Chancellor James Moeser called Schell
Carolina women’s soccer’s most diehard
fan. “He has supported women’s soccer
here since the early days of what is now a
true dynasty.
“Brax is a great friend and active volun-teer
for the University, so it’s wonderfully
appropriate for the Kenan Trust to honor
him in this way,” Moeser said.
Carolina has won 19 of the past 26
national championships in women’s soccer
and boasts an all-time record of 643-31-
18 in 29 years as a varsity sport.
“We are overwhelmed and so appre-ciative
of the Kenan Charitable Trust for
this remarkable gift,” said Coach Anson
Dorrance.
“We are all incredibly humbled with
the size of the gift and honored with
the rationale.”
service and support of the goals and objectives of
the college and substantive contributions to the
specialty of prosthodontics.
Anna Maria Siega-Riz
Associate professor of epidemiology and
nutrition in the School of Public Health, Siega-Riz
received the March of Dimes Agnes Higgins
Award earlier this month at the group’s annual
meeting in Washington.
She also presented a lecture at the meeting,
“Maternal Obesity: The Number One
Problem Facing Prenatal Care Providers in the
New Millennium.”
Eleni Tzima
Assistant professor of cell and molecular
physiology in the School of Medicine, Tzima
has been named a 2007 Ellison Medical
Foundation New Scholar. The award provides
$200,000 over four years in support of research
on the role of blood flow in cardiovascular
disease, primarily among the elderly.
The Ellison Foundation New Scholars award
supports exceptional young faculty who are
nominated by U.S. medical institutions and
universities for their outstanding promise in
aging research.
Krishnamurthy Janakiraman
Research associate at the UNC Lineberger
Comprehensive Cancer Center, Janakiraman
received an American Federation for Aging
Research (AFAR) and General Electric Health-care
Junior Investigator Award for Excellence
in Biomarker Research at the AFAR scientific
conference, “Seeking Biomarkers of Aging and
Diseases of Aging.”
School of Government’s
Adolescent Pregnancy Project
Publications Management magazine in
conjunction with the Missouri School of Journal-ism
has presented two Magnum Opus Awards to
the school for Best Public Service Series and an
Honorable Mention Award for Best All-Around
Government Publication for Pregnancy and
Parenting: A Legal Guide for Adolescents.
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the General Assembly and the executive branch.
It would be nice have someone who knows that
grits is food and not people.”
Other faculty speakers agreed with many of
the points Ferrell made.
Richard “Pete” Andrews, Thomas Willis
Lambeth Distinguished Professor of public
policy and past faculty chair, buttressed Ferrell’s
call for a chancellor who understood fully the
value of a liberal arts education.
The next chancellor, Andrews said, should
be someone who “really understands the way
in which humanities, the arts and social sciences
speak to the human experience and not become a
chancellor just of big science and big biomedical
science,” important though they are.
He said that the next chancellor should speak
for the core values of Carolina from an academic
perspective of those values, but that he or she
would not have to “come from within” to be
able to do that. Moeser demonstrated that when
he came here from Nebraska, Andrews said.
Moeser was a wonderful example of someone
who brought something new to Carolina, but at
the same time became an effective champion of
the core values of the University, he said.
A stronger advocate for staff
Alan Moran, a cabinetmaker in Facilities
Services, and David Brannigan, a Grounds
Services technician and vice chair of the Em-ployee
Forum, reflected on the qualities they saw
as present and lacking in the current chancellor.
Moeser did many great things, both men
said, praising the introduction of the Carolina
Covenant that made it possible for the best
students from poor backgrounds to gain entry
to Carolina and graduate debt-free.
But, they said, he did not do enough for staff.
Moran said he believed Moeser’s emphasis
on the importance of raising faculty pay did not
include a similar concern over staff pay.
Both men said that staff members felt they
were not listened to and that administrators were
going to do whatever they wanted regardless of
what staff members thought. Brannigan talked of
a gap between the administration and staff mem-bers
like himself who wear blue shirts to work.
“Most employees see South Building and the
administration as this remote body that sends
down edicts from upon high,” Brannigan said.
Emily Kass, director of the Ackland Art
Museum, said she viewed the arts as an equal
partner in the educational process and wanted
to see a chancellor who agreed with the notion
that an appreciation for the arts was an essential
part of a great education.
A big showing from students
Student Body President and committee
member Eve Carson spoke first to praise the
efforts of the Student Body Advisory Board for
its work in producing an 18-page document that
was “meant to serve as a preliminary statement
of values, standards and concerns from the
general student population.”
Students from every background were
surveyed in an attempt to represent the views of
the entire student body for the search committee
to weigh.
Many of the 25 students who spoke served
on the board and wrote various sections of
the document. The consistent theme among
the speakers and the report was a respect for
diversity. Difference should not be tolerated,
but embraced and celebrated as an essential
ingredient to a good education and a better
world, the students said.
First-year student Harrison Brooks con-tradicted
some faculty sentiment by saying he
would like to see the next chancellor come from
the Carolina community because that person
would already possess a built-in familiarity and
allegiance that could breed success.
Another student suggested that the next
chancellor be youthful — not in age, but in
outlook, with fresh ideas, energy and optimism
about the future.
Charissa Lloyd, chair of the College Repub-licans,
said students should be free of ideological
discrimination, especially in the classroom. “We
want the ability to defend our ideas, even if they
differ from our professors’ perspectives,” she said.
Paige Michael-Shetley, chair of the UNC
Students for Ron Paul, agreed that the next
chancellor should strive to make the University
an open marketplace of ideas — and politics.
That openness was not only consistent with the
University’s values and tradition, but was also
essential for the University to maintain its
national prominence, she said.
BOG member honored for service to higher education
crisis for the Carter administration.
Carter’s father was publisher of the Greenville
(Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times. A New Orleans
native and graduate of Princeton University’s
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, Carter served as a lieutenant
in the U.S. Marines Corps for two years. He
returned to Greenville and spent 17 years as a
reporter, editor and associate publisher of the
family-owned newspaper. In 1961, Carter won
the Society of Professional Journalists’ national
award for editorial writing. He was a Harvard
University Nieman Fellow from 1965-66.
In the 1960s, Carter became active in racial
and political reform in the South. He worked on
presidential campaigns for Lyndon Johnson in
1964 and Jimmy Carter in 1976 and joined the
Carter administration in 1977.
After leaving the state department in 1980,
Carter held a variety of news media positions,
including opinion editorial columnist for the
Wall Street Journal. His work garnered four
national Emmy awards and the Edward R.
Murrow Award for best foreign documentary.
Parking for commencement will be available
in the Manning, Bowles and Hinton James lots
and the Craige Parking Deck. A reception on
the concourse will follow the ceremony.
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Chancellor from page 1
involved in enhancing the University’s
research enterprise to meet Chancellor
James Moeser’s goal of a $1 billion per year
funding level.
“I’m sure we would probably prefer not to
set a dollar goal because that sends a message
that we only care about money and not the
quality of research and its impact. But it
provides something concrete,” said Tony
Waldrop, vice chancellor for research and
economic development.
Reaching that goal, though, was complicated
by reduced resources and greater competition
for available funding, panelists said.
The nature of business as usual has changed,
said Harvey Seim, chair of the Faculty
Research Committee. In marine sciences,
where he is associate professor and director,
Seim said National Science Foundation
(NSF) funding had fallen from 30 percent to
less than 10 percent.
“We’re on this wheel and running but we’re
never being terribly productive,” he said.
“Interdisciplinary research is where new money
seems to be. You need to figure out how to
make yourself look attractive, but this is a
different business than writing a straight NSF
grant. It means reaching across campus, to
other campuses or to private industry to find
additional resources.”
Peggy Bentley, associate dean for global
health, agreed that faculty should take
advantage of their strengths in collaborative
research. “That is the competitive edge we
need to pursue.”
The School of Public Health, for example,
has identified four areas of emphasis that play
on the school’s existing strengths, she said.
“It isn’t that other areas aren’t important, but
having these strategic areas has helped us
crystallize where to put our resources.”
Creating a more collaborative research focus
also would have an impact on promotion
and tenure considerations, Waldrop said.
“Currently, we don’t emphasize being a member
of a team,” he said.
In the humanities, unlike the sciences,
securing grants is not directly related to tenure,
said Jacquelyn Hall, Distinguished Professor
of history. “But in an indirect sense it
is just as important for faculty research
to be supported through sabbaticals and
fellowships,” she said.
In its report, the committee made several
recommendations for finding and responding
to funding opportunities including dramati-cally
increasing funding for the University
Research Council grants program. Other
suggestions included fostering interdis-ciplinary
research and enhancing faculty
incentives by evaluating compensation
packages and implementing a campus-wide
sabbatical program.
Other action
The council approved proposals to revise the
student appellate process and clarify elements
of reckless driving, driving while impaired and
sanctions of drug or alcohol suspension.
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and make an appropriate contribution to
the University’s overall goal of excellence,”
Moeser said. “Another consideration should
be where we fall in the competitive market-place
for tuition rates charged by our peers.”
He said the task force’s report provided
ample evidence to show that a campus-based
tuition increase of $1,250 for nonresident
undergraduates would be consistent with
those beliefs.
“This amount covers what we calculate to
be the inflationary increase required for these
students to fulfill their commitment to pay
for the full cost of their education,” Moeser
said. “That calculation factors in the cost of
the new funding available this year for faculty
salaries through state appropriations and last
year’s campus-based tuition increases.”
Similarly, Moeser told trustees he had
rejected options as high as $1,500 for non-resident
undergraduate tuition that the task
force had examined, because the additional
revenue it would generate (about $473,000 after
accounting for need-based financial
aid) would not be significant enough to
“justify the additional stress this higher
amount would place on our campus culture,
when our North Carolina undergraduates
will pay no increase.”
Moeser also explained why he had not
accepted the task force’s recommendation to
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The late Benjamin S. Ruffin of Winston-
Salem is the 2007 recipient of the University
Award, the highest honor given by the
UNC Board of Governors.
On Nov. 8, UNC President Erskine
Bowles and awards committee chair Brad
Adcock presented Ruffin’s family with the
award, which recognizes illustrious service
to higher education in North Carolina.
Ruffin, a highly respected civil rights
activist, businessman and civic leader who
served as the first African-American chair of
the Board of Governors, died unexpectedly
last December at the age of 64.
He was known as a tireless defender of
greater educational access and affordability,
as well as greater inclusion in state gov-ernment
and in the political process. The
posthumous award acknowledged his
inspirational leadership and lasting impact
on the UNC system and all of public higher
education in the state.
A Durham native, Ruffin held a master’s
degree in social work from Carolina and
seven honorary doctorates. A business
consultant, retired vice president for
corporate affairs for R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company and former special assistant
to Gov. James B. Hunt Jr., Ruffin was
the recipient of the NAACP’s Kelly M.
Alexander Humanitarian Award and the D.
H. McGannon Citation from the National
Urban League.
An emeritus member of the Board of
Governors at the time of his death, Ruffin
was first elected to the board in 1991.
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keep graduate student increases the same for
both residents and nonresidents.
“For graduate students, it is critical to
differentiate the rates for residents and non-residents,”
he said. “I endorse the lower end of
the task force’s suggested streamlined range —
$800 — for nonresidents because it covers the
cost of inflation. That is the measure we should
be focused on, even when considering that we
use tuition remission funds to adjust nonresi-dent
tuition to in-state levels for our graduate
students receiving University support. If the
rate were any lower than $800 we would lose
ground, and that would not be acceptable.”
As for resident graduate students, Moeser
said he disagreed with the task force’s thinking
in setting the range between $800 and $1,500.
“Even at the $800 figure, the disparity
between the percentage difference — in the
double digits — for nonresidents and residents
is just too much,” Moeser said. “It would be an
inconsistency that sends the wrong message to
our students and to the state.”
Moeser told trustees that he hoped they
would consider the fairness of his $400 proposed
increase for resident graduate students.
While differing with the task force over
some numbers, he endorsed the task force’s
proposals for how any new campus-based
tuition funds should be spent, starting with the
35 percent of revenues that has always been set
aside for need-based financial aid.
What is new in this year’s recommendations
is $600,000 for advising program support. The
remaining revenues should be devoted to more
faculty positions and faculty salaries, Moeser said.
Moeser said setting these tuition rates was a
delicate process that had a profound impact on
students and their families.
On the one hand, trustees must consider
if what parents are being asked to pay in
tuition is fair and affordable. On the other
hand, it must weigh the critical role that money
generated by tuition plays in helping to keep and
attract the best faculty, who are fundamental
for providing the great education from Carolina
that students and their parents expect.
“We all have an important responsibility to
protect the quality of the education we provide
to students and the value of the Carolina
diploma that they will receive upon graduating,”
Moeser said.
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